Word: pulpitized
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...Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
Thereupon the elders sent to Kansas City for an evangelist of local renown, Rev. George Rider, 45. He swept down on Halley's Bluff with an oldfashioned, long-term revival meeting, organized a children's choir and a six-piece band, roared from the pulpit. Converts came flocking...
...obliging bystander might point to the Norrises, La Follettes and Borahs of politics;* the Fosdicks and Wises of the pulpit; to Associate Justices Holmes and Brandeis on the bench; to John Dewey and Alexander Meiklejohn in pedagogy; to Henry Ford and Owen D. Young as businessmen; to the Crusaders as Liberals on Prohibition; to The Nation, New Republic, St. Louis Post Dispatch and Scripps-Howard chainpapers, and to Will Rogers?all of them exponents of one or another kind of U. S. Liberalism. But for an exemplar and spokesman whose Liberalism would be little disputed and least necessary to define...
...last decade the mind of skeptical youth has indulged itself in a period of criticism of the old order, of challenge, of destruction of apparently valueless tradition. It has sought from the rostrum of the lecture-hall and from the pulpit something solid and of enduring value. It has sought to free itself from the clutches of pure sentimentality and heroics. And now the new decade is destined to build a finer educational and ethical structure upon the sturdy foundations from which has been removed the incubus of the inglorious edifice inherited from our elders. The destructive criticism...
...work of the younger boys of the theatre. Hence his play-against which the only criticism is that it is too worthy-makes use of gramophonic bugle calls, clock ticks in the darkness to denote passage of time, mysterious snatches of offstage dialog. The play should stimulate many a pulpit and women's club...