Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...offers another of his critical essays on the Revolutionary period, the topic being, "The Monmouth and Newport Campaigns." "The Closing Scene of the Iliad," by William C. Lawton, will be of interest to all classical students. One of the most readable articles in the number is "Fictions in the Pulpit," by Agnes Repplier. The writer makes a strong protest against the extreme moralistic and didactic tone of modern novel. Professor Joseph H. Thayer contributes an admirable description of the noble life and work of the late President Theodore Dwight Woolsey...
Professor William J. Tucker, D. D of the Andover Theological Seminary, will occupy the pulpit at the Appleton chapel tomorrow evening...
...settle while in process of construction. Sienna, the other principal city of Tuscany, is noted mainly for its cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world. The present edifice is only the transept, the nave having been begun but never completed. The church contains the most beautiful pulpit in Italy, and the interior is splendidly ornamented...
President Hyde, of Bowdoin College, who will occupy the chapel pulpit Sunday evening, is a graduate of Havard. He was a member of the class of '81. Abundant testimony of President Hyde's ability is given by the position which he holds. He is one of the youngest college presidents in the country...
...account of the unfavorable weather last evening, only a very small congregation was present at Appleton Chapel. The pulpit was occupied by Rev. William Lawrence, who, after reading the service, delivered a short but earnest address intended mainly for the students. He illustrated his remarks by a text from the 19th chapter of St. Luke, verses 39 and 40, in which Christ's triumphant march into Jerusalem amidst the rejoicing and glorification by his disciples is told. Truth, said the speaker, is bound to be spoken in some places or other, and it is our duty to find...