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DOI Artikel:Howe, Samuel Burnett: The open-air pulpit of Grace Church, New York
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VOL. XL. No. 157 Copyright, 1910, by John Lane Company MARCH, 1910
THE OPEN-AIR PULPIT OF GRACE one on the continent. Outdoor preaching, as a
CHURCH, NEW YORK method of reaching the man of the street, is by no
BY SAMUEL HOWE means new to the old country—France, Italy and
England have many pulpits built on the outside of
That Dr. Huntington lived long churches or near by on crossroads. The Mother
enough to inspire some one to present to the New of Parliaments, so her history tells, assembled in
World so timely an evidence of its daily need large multitudes to hear the appeal of Hooker and
as an outside pulpit on the Great White Way of the Latimer at St. Paul's Cross again and again. The
New Metropolis is something for which we should great controversies of the time were fought out in
all be devoutly thankful. this manner. The banners of the Armada were
We are also to be congratulated on the subject carried in triumph and laid at the feet of the
he selected for its adornment, upon the architect speaker. It is scarcely likely that the open-air pul-
who had the matter in charge and upon the sculptor pit of the New World will witness any such scene,
to whom was entrusted the interpretation of the but there are, doubtless, preachers who will gladly
theme. devote their energies, grappling with the vital prob-
An open-air pulpit is an innovation and a depar- Iems of the day, appealing to the hearts with firm
ture; this, so far as is known, seems to be the only grasp of their subject and of themselves, and not
pulpit, central panel jules edouard roine, sculptor
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STUDIO
VOL. XL. No. 157 Copyright, 1910, by John Lane Company MARCH, 1910
THE OPEN-AIR PULPIT OF GRACE one on the continent. Outdoor preaching, as a
CHURCH, NEW YORK method of reaching the man of the street, is by no
BY SAMUEL HOWE means new to the old country—France, Italy and
England have many pulpits built on the outside of
That Dr. Huntington lived long churches or near by on crossroads. The Mother
enough to inspire some one to present to the New of Parliaments, so her history tells, assembled in
World so timely an evidence of its daily need large multitudes to hear the appeal of Hooker and
as an outside pulpit on the Great White Way of the Latimer at St. Paul's Cross again and again. The
New Metropolis is something for which we should great controversies of the time were fought out in
all be devoutly thankful. this manner. The banners of the Armada were
We are also to be congratulated on the subject carried in triumph and laid at the feet of the
he selected for its adornment, upon the architect speaker. It is scarcely likely that the open-air pul-
who had the matter in charge and upon the sculptor pit of the New World will witness any such scene,
to whom was entrusted the interpretation of the but there are, doubtless, preachers who will gladly
theme. devote their energies, grappling with the vital prob-
An open-air pulpit is an innovation and a depar- Iems of the day, appealing to the hearts with firm
ture; this, so far as is known, seems to be the only grasp of their subject and of themselves, and not
pulpit, central panel jules edouard roine, sculptor
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