Word: pulpiteering
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...this politics was merely preliminary to the chief purpose of the Fundamentalists which was to kill Modernism once and forever. Specifically this means ousting Harry Emerson Fosdick from his pulpit in Manhattan. Then it means ousting several professors like Charles P. Fagnani of Union Theological Seminary, and, if possible, a group of educated ministers like Henry Sloane Coffin, Henry Van Dyke, William Pierson Merrill. Then it means the domination of the missionaries, by ejecting them from their not particularly lucrative jobs if they refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends...
Concerning Chemistry: "We have been repeating the story in the pulpit of the Good Samaritan and telling of his use of oil and wine for the wounded man, of his sympathetic heart and skill. The fact is that in these days of preventive medicine, of more scientific diagnosis, and of the treatment of tens of thousands of patients in our hospitals, the leaders among the Good Samaritans are our men of science, such as Pasteur, Lister and Osler...
...Straton, who is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City, has become nationally prominent during the last few years by his vigorous campaign against vice in New York, and by his fearless expression of his beliefs from the pulpit. Because Dr. Straton does not mince words in his sermon, his doctrines have been accused of being "revolutionary", and an open bid for sensationalism. Dr. Straton, in replying in the New York Times to a specific criticism of sensationalism made by a brother clergyman about a year ago, denied that he had ever exceeded the bounds of pulpit...
...regard the controversy between" Fundamentalists and Modernists as absurd," said Rev. V. T. Pomeroy of England, Appleton Chapel preacher this week, "because the Fundamentalist's attack hasn't the slightest chance of success. Whatever may be said from a pulpit, it cannot be denied that one lives and profits by a scientifically organized, modern world...
...Pulpit was the plain rostrum of the Smithfield Street M. E. Church of Pittsburgh, where the M. E. Council of Cities was in session...