... was rarely willing to endure. No speed-writer transcribed in full any of his sermons or prayers. The best example of his pulpit oratory which is available today is, ironically, a sermon composed in 1850 by the imagination of a novelist who was probably completely unknown to Father Taylor, but whose fame has...

...Harold P. Marley Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 ECCLESIASTIC ANVILS OF PEACE HAROLD P. MARLEY EVERY MINISTER has read from his pulpit, not once but several times, the old prophetic hope that nations should beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks...

.... Slowly, the Lord Brethren grew in power and assurance. Through constant reiteration from the pulpit supported by Bible text and by the unquestioned authority of the minister as well as through their own experiences in church and village affairs, the New Englanders had learned in early days to cherish...

... of America two great deciaimers, Rufus Choate and John E. Edwards and the greater of the twain is the preacher so said a well known politician from the North after hearing Edwards in the pulpit. Here was a pulpit eagle that soared and shined of a truth. The sympathetic reader will understand how...

... that Frenssen is primarily a teacher and a preacher, still just as much of one as when his deep-set blue eyes warmed with loving zeal above the little pulpit of Hennstedt or of Hemme. Book Reviews 391 We can easily understand that it was not possible for him to remain long in these tiny pulpits, or in any...

... is the heart of man, the artist s price some little good of man. Emerson left the pulpit because of his aversion to certain forms of church worship, but he was none the less prophet on lyceum platform and in his essays. Whittier gave up his prospects for political advancement, but his songs became...

... the intellectual conditions, editors have given support to the policies of educators without questioning their wisdom. Abetter knowledge of the real results would make them condemn what otherwise they commend. The pulpit is, and has been, the most potent factor in forming public sentiments on questions of morals...

... this change as beginning earlier in the novel, however, than Hedges does, who finds most of his evidence in the last scene at Eliot s Pulpit. Coverdale's Aborted Pastoral 85 of Mr. Emerson s Essays, the Dial, Carlyle s works, George Sand s romances that had constituted his reading matter at Blithedale, he...

...:21, Render unto Caesar. He argued that in America we the people are Caesar and every Christian is therefore obligated to vote. Mooneyham then announced that while he was not endorsing any candidates from the pulpit, slips of paper listing the levers he would pull in the voting booth were...

... in di­ vinity schools and in the popular pulpit. The vagaries of the earlier learned enterprise yielded to specialization in the nineteenth cen­ tury, but also to a specialist group that trod between the material and the spiritual. Socially located as an entity, the college professoriate functioned...

... felt among the masses through the press, pamphlet, pulpit, and platform. Busi­ nessmen, visualizing open markets in Europe, adopted the creed hope­ fully. Practical politicians, scenting the vote-catching potentialities, enlisted themselves in the cause. In 1849 the short-lived pseudo Republic...

... of the values of acceptance and social quiescence it is the develes temple. 10 Moreover, the tavern always potentially focuses and demonizes those values that mark an unregenerate peasantry: typi­ cally enough, this discourse emerges from the tavern s contentious antitype, the pulpit. From such an elevation...

... of England, France, and Spain he persistently refused to fight. And when, by the Embargo Act of December, 1807, he actually ordered shippers to keep their vessels at home, denunciations flamed from pulpit, Ibid., IX. 401: I still think our original idea as to office is best; that is, to depend...

... these almost clergy imps, who sport their cloth without assumption; and from their little pulpits (the tops of chimneys), in the nipping air of a December morning, preach a lesson of patience to man­ kind. Or when he considers the best of Sapors in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! wouldst thou...

... at a distance outside, and a group of young fellows lingered behind the automobiles for a final appetizer. Nothing was done in a hurry and everything was delightfully informal, although inside the house there was an atmosphere of deep reverence. Unpainted pine benches faced a square pulpit on a raised platform...

... worship must be continued for twentyfour hours.21 Such opposition to the Book of Sports was not limited to local govern­ ment officials; ministers preached against the king s declaration from the pulpit as well. The Vicar of Hominghold was reported for quoting pas­ sages of Scripture, in opposition...

... of achievement throughout the black belt. Pulpits were occupied by men whose education and training were out of tune with the sentiments echoed in the writings of Dubois and others, and as a result they turned a deaf ear to the cry of revolt and depended upon Washington for their theme. Negro journalism...

... booth at the fair. I imagined the preacher, a large black man robed in satin of a lighter blue, marching in ahead of the choir, themselves gowned in blue, judge and jury to the sinning flock. I saw him step up to the flimsy pulpit, lean into his sermon, and open up a huge Bible big as a drum...

... that the only way to prevent others from doing so is to have a law. The Southern pulpit and press, on this question of child labor, seem to be largely deaf and dumb, and unless there is soon a mighty awakening, the outside world will rightly con­ clude that the last spark of Southern chivalry has disappeared. ...

... that Norwood was intended to be less a literary work than an adjunct of Beecher s pulpit preaching and that the purpose could have been served as well by a summary state­ ment of Beecher s views and his career. ...