Word: pulpiteering
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When Presbyterians last officially assembled (TIME, June 9) dominant Fundamentalists were persuaded by the majority Moderates to make a concession to the minority Liberals, to wit: Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick was not to be ousted from his pulpit on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, provided he subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith. The proviso was fair...
...Fosdick sailed for England. He crowded the greatest Protestant "chapels" of England. He touched the heart of England. His theology was acceptable to England. Dr. Fosdick returned. He was offered several famous American pulpits. He considered whether his preaching of the gospel ought to be contingent upon a theological bargain such as the Presbyterians demanded. He said nothing, but . . . The rumor started, the rumor spread, the rumor became confident prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan...
...playing upon the speaker's platform. There stood the Rev. O'Farrell, gesticulating, shouting to make himself heard above a strange series of interruptions. Beside him, chattering, chirping, squeaking, a lively monkey tugged and chafed at the cord that tethered it to a broomstick. Brought into the pulpit by the preacher to advertise his bold sermon and to illustrate his bold points, the simian had to be held in place by the sermonizer's 12-year-old daughter...
...Fuller, a Baptist, was seeking appointment to a Presbyterian pulpit in New York. He was standing before an official conclave of the Presbytery. Dr. Tertius Van Dyke, liberal son of liberal Dr. Henry, endeavored to cut short the harrowing discussion, but in vain. A resolution that "owing to the confusion in the reports of the Committee on Candidates, the examination of Dr. Fuller will be referred back to the Committee on Candidates" was adopted...
...which told of the peregrinations of Rolle and his tutor. The moving pictures had not yet been heard of, and the thought of Sabbath baseball games was still locked in the imagination of the hopelessly depraved. Reading was the universal in door sport, prescribed and supervised by parent and pulpit...