Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strenuous visitation of the same spirit causes Elmer's ejection, three years later, from Mizpah Theological Seminary. But he has known the intoxication, stronger than drink, of speaking from a pulpit; has learned, among other rewards of the profession, the ease with which a pastor, who is a baritone solo incarnate, can seduce the parish kittens. A few years of selling farm implements and indulging in small town waitresses are an ideal prolongation of Elmer Gantry's novitiate for his first great phase, evangelism...
...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...
Last year, many a Fundamentalist reproached Dr. John Roach Straton, Fundamentalist thunderer, when he invited Uldine to his Manhattan temple to speak. The Bible, they said, forbids women's appearance in the pulpit. Fearless Preacher Straton permitted her to proceed, and she gave a sermon based so fundamentally upon the Ark of the Covenant that it soothed the hearts of the reproachful ones. But later in Madison Square Garden she was charged by atheists with violating the child labor laws by preaching for money...
...less innocently Uldine's freeborn glance confessed wonder when she thought of that other day when Dr. Straton introduced her from his already surfeited pulpit as "a sunny-hearted child, apointed with God's oil. . . ." Mrs. Straton claimed she had been suffering with a severe pain in the side, but that it had been relieved promptly by Uldine's prayers...
...cared, or dared, to use the Roman Catholic Church term. Of the few are Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh, Reverend Ralph W. Sockman and Reverend Thomas Guthrie Speers of Manhattan. Not so John Roach Straton. At his fellow Baptist, Harry Emerson Fosdick, he sneered: ". . . Rockefeller's pulpit puppet...