Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neighborhood of Columbia University, several miles from the residential district in which the church is now located. And also, as a graceful gesture, Dr. Fosdick could not accept until the Presbyterian General Assembly officially refused to permit the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to take him back into its pulpit. It was thought that the church members would follow their leaders in accepting the Fosdick conditions...
...went off to sea. A sharp, overweening tongue landed him in irons, foolish but innocent. At home again, penniless, he calculated his next plan for a career more thoughtfully. He stole some of his father's sermons and marched off under an assumed name looking for an empty pulpit. With admirable casuistry, he told himself that, since men liked to be preached to, it mattered not who preached, so long as the hearers were none the wiser. When his reputation chased him from one pulpit to another, he found reasons for taking up counterfeiting: men had to have currency...
John Henry Jowett, Englishman who served for many years at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian? Church, Manhattan, was perhaps the most famous pulpit orator of his generation...
Happy in his personal relations, he stepped from one rich pulpit to another. Never was there sign of trouble, intellectual or financial. He preached sweet Christianity, packed the galleries...
...Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick has just preached his last sermon as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New York. Under the curse of heresy, he leaves a pulpit where for six years he has preached with the bold courage of his broad convictions. Today he is probably the newest and the greatest force in modern religious thinking and as such he comes in contact with the stern limits of the Presbyterian dogma...