Word: pulpiteering
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...attempt would be largely wasted. One lecturer, who is quite near sighted, lays his manuscript on the high desk before him, over which only the top of his head is visible to the students, and reads steadily, or putting his hands in his pockets lounges back in his pulpit, where he is only visible to those at the side. Almost all the lecturers drop the voice two or three words before the close of the sentence, which renders it difficult to follow them...
...fact that the officiating clergyman at morning prayers has to wear an overcoat in the pulpit is sufficient evidence that Appleton Chapel is not a warm enough place for hundreds of men to sit in each morning...
...student. Not content with the saving of 97 cents made by not lighting the lamps in the yard in recess the careful "watch dogs of the treasury" wish to save an additional penny by not using gas in the chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light of the painted windows and vainly endeavor to make out through the gloom the big letters of the psalm books. Much good eyesight is being uselessly squandered in these rash attempts to follow...
...amongst its devotees men of tethers and of high cultivation. It has been said of a certain college, that it turned out better wrestlers than parsons. Certainly some of them made a greater figure in the ring, and a more successful one. than in the pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning of the present one, it was thought no disgrace to "the cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw...
...called the second story. It is a spacious apartment of solid stone, the walls of which are paneled to receive appropriate inscriptions, and is lighted from the roof. The sarcophagus is placed so as to be visible from the interior of the chapel. The wall back of the pulpit was removed and a graceful arch formed, through which the monument is seen to great advantage. General Lee is represented as lying on his military cot, with a spread thrown over him. His right arm rests upon his breast, and the left hand lies upon the hilt of his sword...