Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardly Wait." There was nothing stuffy about Peter Marshall, even when he thundered from the pulpit against liquor, sexy magazine pictures, and Hollywood divorces. He wore tweed jackets, polo shirts and bright ties, chain-smoked cigarettes and once surprised some elderly churchwomen by banging on a piano and singing Oh, You Beautiful Doll. A member of no party, he called himself "progressive and liberal." At times his philosophy was reflected in pointed prayers before the Senate. Marshall once implored: "Help us to care, as Thou dost care, for the little people who have no lobbyists, for the minority groups...
...March 1946, he had a heart attack during a sermon, finished what he was saying, and then was helped from the pulpit. Though he recuperated, he never let up, frequently ended services by saying: "If I am still here, I'll be with you next week." Once he asked an audience: "Are you scarred of death? I'm not. I'm looking for-r-ward to it-I can hardly wait." Last week, at 46, death came swiftly to Peter Marshall. Two days later, the last prayer he had written for the Senate was read aloud. ". . . Where...
...Bielefeld last week was to elect a successor to venerable Bishop Wurm. They chose another big figure in German Protestantism. Like Wurm, the new chairman, stocky, white-goateed Bishop Otto Dibelius, Lutheran Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, was unbending in his opposition to the Nazis. Barred from the pulpit, he defied Nazi orders against speaking and writing, and was brought to trial. When Minister for Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl shouted at him: "What right have you to speak for the Church, now that you have been dismissed from your religious duties?" Dibelius answered calmly: "Herr Minister, a Christian is never...
Today, 68-year-old Bishop Dibelius is again fighting for freedom of the Church-this time, in the Russian zone of Germany, against the Communists. His fearless words, in & out of the pulpit in Berlin, have made him the outstanding spokesman of Protestantism in eastern Germany. By electing him, the Bielefeld delegates have thrown the whole weight of their support to the Church in the east...
...After the installation ceremony, several hundred churchgoers gathered outside the parish house, called Father Dunphy to the door, applauded as he made his last appearance in the parish he had served for 14 years. He was still a priest in good standing, but he had no job, and no pulpit...