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Home Service. In Akron, the Temple of Wisdom reported the theft of a poor box, $300 in cash, and a $250 mahogany pulpit...
...often they are working at cross-purposes with something he is not but would apparently like to be: the father of his country. In other plays he has sometimes shown a tiresome tendency to prate, but in this one he spends rather more than an hour in mounting the pulpit and clearing his throat. When at last he thunders forth his text, the congregation is ready to hear the wisdom of the ages. Instead, the message runs something like this: "Don't cheat on your wife. Because if you do, you'll never finish night school...
Four centuries ago, Richard Hooker, speaking from the pulpit, said that "Rule there cannot be which public approbation has not made so." Firm adherence to this principle must be reiterated occasionally. Mr. Lodge, from a large pulpit, has underscored the dogma in unequivocal terms. Such explicit assertion is essential, for illegality thrives upon that silence which is often interpreted as tacit assent...
...quick little public duster that whirled around King Saud's visit built up while he was at sea and blew out shortly after he stepped ashore. It was nothing compared with the storm blowing up from pulpit, editorial page, civic organizations and even state legislatures over a visit tentatively scheduled for April by Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. By last week it was plain that, foreign policy or no, Tito was persona non grata to a vociferous segment of the American public...
Some six hours after he had been released on $1,000 bond for joining five Negro ministers in a violation of Georgia's bus-segregation laws (TIME, Jan. 21), the Rev. William Holmes Borders was back in the pulpit of Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church to pay his respects to one of Georgia's outstanding citizens...