Word: pulpits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a female Trinity heart skipped a beat when "Little Tui" announced his engagement from the pulpit, married Mary Kemp Blagden, daughter of a rich Philadelphia family. Last week it became evident that "Little Tui" had never really stopped thinking of his college work. On Sunday Bishop Wallace John Gardner of New Jersey mounted the pulpit of Trinity Church in Princeton, announced that the rector of Trinity, Boston, was resigning his pulpit, would take over the vacant rectorship of Trinity, Princeton, next September. There was no actual applause, but the congregation felt like cheering...
...England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen...
Handsome, hollow-eyed, musical-voiced Monsignor Sheen, philosophy professor at the Catholic University of America, is one of the most brilliant U. S. pulpit and radio orators, and one of the most astute of Catholic minds. Before baptizing Broun, he instructed him in the faith for ten weeks. Before Broun died last fortnight, Monsignor Sheen administered to him the Church's last rites, and gave him a special blessing from Pope Pius XII. Heywood Broun, voluble to his friends on all other subjects, never talked much about Catholicism. To mourners at the funeral, Monsignor Sheen's address - which...