Word: pulpitized
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Around his pulpit he piled high the stack of books and magazines which God had destined him to annihilate. He preached a sermon to light the fires of faith. His organist and full-voiced choir fanned the flames of wrath with hymns of the Church Militant...
William T. Manning, Bishop of New York, powerful Conservative leader in the Episcopal Church, announced he would speak last Sunday morning in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Thousands came. As they sang Onward, Christian Soldiers, he ascended the pulpit. After the hymn the Bishop prayed for the dying statesman. After the prayer, he began to deliver in carefully enunciated syllables the sermon which, probably more than any other, will determine his place as a churchman...
...Presbyterian General Assembly at Indianapolis (TIME, May 19) took steps to oust Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick from a New York pulpit. They began by insisting that every preacher in a Presbyterian church should accept, word for word, five "essentials of faith" (Virgin Birth...
Pleasure Mad. When the producers forget that their films are manufactured for the projection room oi a theatre and not for a pulpit there is apt to be dullness. The lesson for this particular evening is the parable of the poor family who suddenly found themselves wealthy. Scrutinizing of the title enables one to guess the outcome...
...first skirmish is begun. It centers about the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, where Dr. Fosdick, Baptist, preaches most every Sunday. Three Presbyterian ministers lead the fight to oust Dr. Fosdick from that Presbyterian pulpit. One is Dr. Maitland Alexander of Pittsburgh. He is a rigid man, pastor of the biggest and richest Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh, himself rich. He is also President of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, famous for its changeless conservatism from generation to generation. The second leader is Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church of New York City...