Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then there would be masculine Maude Royden, famed pulpit female, who has a reputation among the timorous British Christians as a dangerous missionary of socialism and amidst the red-hot socialists as a tame and sentimental apostle of Christianity...
...alumni service will be conducted at five o'clock this afternoon with the Reverend Joseph A. Leighton, Professor of Philosophy in Ohio State University in the pulpit...
...agree completely with Keats. He does not need to. But neither need he care to associate his sacred and deified conceptions with the cheapness revealed by the California clergyman. Taste may not be essential in the forum or on the market place. It is certainly essential in the pulpit of a modern church or on the rostrum of a modern church convention...
...time that Mr. Lewis allowed him, they would be able to get to Independence Avenue in time for the solo "At the R-i-i-iver..." The old revival song, very far away, strummed in their minds, a dwindling obligate to the nasal voice that harangued them from the pulpit...
Like all inspired prophets, Uldine's pulpit propensities originated from a spiritual awakening. "An expert child dancer at eleven", to quote her own middest words, a chance visit to a revival meeting "caused something all of a sudden to happen inside her." After she had thus perceived the hollowness of mundane life and renounced it, her debut in her new role was dramatic. Suddenly appearing in a railway yard at lunch hour, she began to preach to the workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry...