Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic pulpit is not a pulpit devoted to politics. It is devoted to two great themes, religion and finance...
...chaplain of the famed 69th Regiment of New York ("the fighting Irish") during the World War, was advisor to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith in his historic reply to Lawyer Charles C. Marshall (TIME, Apr. 25). Father Duffy also told the Republicans that any Catholic priest talking politics in a pulpit, even though lauding A. E. Smith, would be "trimmed down" if reported to his bishop or cardinal...
...Charles E. Jefferson has said that it took him 25 years to master the important detail of "pulpit technique," which, in the recent poll conducted by the Christian Century, caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous...
...Protestant Episcopal Church is not established by the Government as is the Anglican Church in England. Otherwise its situation is largely parallel. High-church and low-church divisions obtain; pulpit-occupants are more likely than pew-sitters to swing to high-churchliness. Excitement in the U. S. was therefore stirred, last week, less by prospects of disestablishment in Great Britain than by the papal encyclical and its effects upon church unity...
...Manhattan, the Rev. Charles Francis Potter, M.A., S.T.M.,* who was ordained into the Baptist ministry in 1908, who later adopted the Unitarian creed, was installed in the pulpit of the Unitarian Church of the Divine Paternity. Famed for his liberal views on Christian theology, quite opposed to those of many members of his original sect, Mr. Potter preached a sermon in which he described the Pope's encyclical as "a singularly blundering, misinformed and untrue document . . . a claim of monopoly of the Christian religion that is most impudent. . . . Intolerance is one of the cleverest rapiers used by the Catholic Church...