What's the answer?' - leaning out of the
pulpit, and pointing downward with his right hand: 'From below!' - starting back again, and looking at the sailors before him: 'From below, my brethren.
With a rush of new deter- mination he worked on his sermons all through the week and forgot, in his zeal to reach the ears and the soul of this new listener, both his embarrassment in the
pulpit and the necessity of prayer in the study on Sunday mornings.
In his hand he carried a small open box, with the figures “8 by 10” written in black paint on one of its sides; which, having placed in the
pulpit, apparently as a footstool for the divine, he returned to his station in time to say, sonorously, “Amen.” The eyes of the congregation, very naturally, were turned to the windows, as Mr.
From where she sat she could see the whole church, including pulpit and gallery, and her black eyes darted over it with restless glances.
The minister appeared in the pulpit and Peg subsided into silence.
The sermon which he now delivered was marked by the same characteristics of style and manner as the general series of his pulpit oratory.
"He was to have exchanged pulpits with Parson Shute, of Westbury; but Parson Shute sent to excuse himself yesterday, being to preach a funeral sermon."
"But the chair, in the course of its varied existence, had grown so accustomed to general intercourse with society, that I doubt whether it would have contented itself in the
pulpit of the Old South.
But when a minister says a thing in the
pulpit you just have to believe it."
When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.
Among them, quivering to and fro between gloom and splendor, appeared faces that would be seen next day at the council board of the province, and others which, Sabbath after Sabbath, looked devoutly heavenward, and benignantly over the crowded pews, from the holiest pulpits in the land.
An introduction presents the context for the study, early history and development of the
pulpit. A chapter is devoted to each monument, closing with a final chapter examining their impact on subsequent
pulpit design, and on other artists.
