Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech last September threatening to hang his enemies that brought Father Dunphy back into action. He chided the President from his pulpit. "It is not Christian," he wrote to El Pueblo, "for those in high places to foment or incite to civil war. Nor is it Christian to elevate hatred to the extreme of wanting to annihilate those who hold differing opinions...
...morning service in Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary, second-year Student Harold M. Davis, 27, strode to the pulpit. His tie, as bright and many-colored as Joseph's coat, was the one vivid touch in the plain, crowded Victorian chapel. From Acts he read three short passages about Barnabas, "a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost," under whose teaching "the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch...
...intense, handsome man in the pulpit threw back his head and cried in a loud voice: "Oh Lord, uplift me-that I may uplift these others...
...pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some good old-fashioned preaching from the pulpit...
...scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church was so crowded that the Cambridge Review commented...