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...burghers of Heroldsbach were not easily convinced. When a priest from Bamberg read a papal condemnation of the visions from Heroldsbach's pulpit, he was shouted down by the villagers. The church proceeded slowly against the visionists. But when they kept organizing processions, the archbishop excommunicated 22 of the leaders...
Four days later, the Red Dean, with his new freedom, repeated his germ warfare charges from the pulpit of Canterbury Cathedral itself. A handful of Americans in the congregation walked...
...false witness not only against his neighbor but against his country and his country's friends," added aged Liberal Lord Teviot. The Marquess of Salisbury, Leader of the House of Lords, agreed that the church cannot proceed against the Red Dean ("he has not been drunk in the pulpit . . . and he has not been guilty of flagrant immorality"); he considered it "extremely doubtful" whether the state could proceed either...
Orthodoxy & Battlefields. Moderator Macartney had led the fight of Presbyterian fundamentalists (he prefers the term "orthodox") to oust the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, leading theological modernist, from the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Attracted by Macartney's reputation, Pittsburgh Presbyterians asked him, in 1927, to take over the ministry of their own First Church, long one of the most influential in U.S. Presbyterianism...
Outside of his pulpit, Bachelor Macartney spends most of his spare time in writing and historical research. A specialist on the Civil War, he has walked over almost every battlefield from Manassas to Shiloh. A good many of his 46 published books are written about historical subjects (e.g., a life of McClellan, several studies of Lincoln); the rest are sermons and devotional works...