Word: pulpit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are all sorts of Christmases, as the Vagabond very well knows. And if the day means one thing in Boston and another in Hamilton, if it means one thing to the man in the pulpit and another to the man in the street, it at least means something to them all. That, perhaps, is more than can be said of any other holiday...
Turning to Princeton, one reads the same day that not nearly so many graduates now enter the ministry as formerly used to be the case. But will that reconcile the undergraduates to having had a gloomy football year? Many Princeton alumni who afterward pounded the cushions of a pulpit learned how to do it partly on the gridiron. What Princeton needs is not more clergymen among her alumni, but more mighty men of valor on her football team...
...Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
...probably be called a hypocrite for leaving the pulpit to take this job. A fellow wrote me I'd go to hell for it. Maybe he's right. If he is, I won't be travelling a lonesome road...
...From his pulpit Mr. Blackshear read to his congregation, among whom were a few Negroes, a notice he had printed in the church bulletin: "The Episcopal Church provides churches for Negroes. Several of these churches are within easy reach of this locality. They are in the need of the loyal support of all true Negro churchmen. Therefore, the rector of this parish discourages the attendance or membership in this church of members of that race...