The Báb forbade the use of pulpits for the delivery of sermons and the reading of the Text.
Your pulpits would be unoccupied, if you sought the profoundest men to fill them.
So great were their talents and virtues that they speedily spread over Europe, and occupied the principal pulpits and the most important chairs in the universities.
Having, before his visit to America, collected large sums for the charity schools in the metropolis, he naturally expected that the pulpits would not be denied him now, in which to plead the interests of his own poor.
Both Tabernacle and [Tottenham Court-road] chapel pulpits shall be open to a captain or an esquire sent of God.
He saw too the number of his clerical friends largely increasing, and especially rejoiced in the fact that the excellent Fletcher, of Madeley, preached in his pulpits in London.
Wesley, and several times exchanged pulpitswith them.
He had other powerful friends among the clergy, and still more among the laity, who invited him by vote into some pulpits where the pastors were "shy" of him.
There would probably be few pulpits open to Peter Cartwright in these more cultivated times.
None the less, the typical minister of to-day would have had very scant welcome in the rude pulpits of the days of which we write.
I cannot encourage him to try the ministry, because he would change his religion so fast that he would have to keep a traveling agent under wages to go ahead of him to engage pulpits and board for him.
From every remote corner of the globe the cables of condolence swept in; every printed sheet in Christendom was filled with lavish tribute; pulpits forgot his heresies and paid him honor.
From one end of the South to the other the pulpits rang with the text: "Cursed be Canaan; a servant to servants shall he be to his brethren.
The pulpits were often pretentious, even in the plain and undecorated meeting-houses, and were usually high desks, to which a narrow flight of stairs led.
Of such sort are the pale parsons who arise in suburban pulpits to dispose of him in the half hour between the first and second lessons, as their predecessors of the 70's and 80's disposed of Darwin, Huxley and Spencer.
He had been trifling with the freedom of the people, and they had learned from their fireside Bibles and from their pulpits that no man may command another in his relation to God.
There are pulpits enough for all preachers of prose, and the business of verse writing is hardly to express convictions.
Perhaps no American pulpits have to-day a wider hearing beyond the sea than two that stand within hearing distance of each other on New Haven Green, occupied by Theodore T.
In the early years of the nineteenth century the Unitarian pulpits of Boston were adorned with every literary grace known to the rhetoric of that period.
At Boston all pulpits were opened to him, and churches were thronged with eager and excited hearers.
The two bronze pulpits are real masterpieces of cinquecento art and are adorned by subjects from the Old Testament by Juan Bantista Celma.
The two pulpits are covered with interesting iron bas-reliefs, and the High Altar encased in a mass of plateresque silver work.
Bosphorus, and their pulpits were the airy chambers of the first Christian towers.
Two iron pulpitsproject from the lower part of the grille, and a swan of the same metal, with extended wings, rests upon either pulpit.
This is the only reason for supposing him to have made the pulpits also.
For a detailed account of these pulpits see Villa-amil y Castro's article in the Museo Espanol de Antiguedadess.
These last-named pulpits are associated with a legend.
Holy messengers; Pulpits and Sundays; sorrow dogging sin; Afflictions sorted; anguish of all sizes; Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in!
Pulpits outside the Church are not only destitute of that power, but, alas!
According to him, error from the pulpits of the State Establishment is sanctified, owing to some mysterious power its pulpits possess.
It was never deemed that it would require a wider platform, or that it would have in its pulpits men of larger vision or of more catholic view than the men it had already.
The 'pulpits were tuned,' the Sunday-school was invaded, the congregation was taken by storm.
Socinian Preachers quit their pulpits in Yankeeland, saying, "Friends, this is all gone to coloured cobweb, we regret to say!
The saint and the sinner often exchangepulpits and each proves the imperfection of the other.
Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
The 'free' character of the pulpits has made the way easier than in most other denominations for the incoming of modern thought in this and other directions.
This lapse, however, was for the most part left obscure while the pulpits resounded with 'plain, moral discourses.
Parker at once became a marked man; most Unitarian pulpits were closed against him, but a large hall accommodated the vast crowds that came to hear him.
The spiritual preachers of our day are constantly being blamed for not tuning their pulpits to the new themes of our so progressive day.
After graduating at Williams College he was ordained pastor, and occupied pulpits in Brooklyn, Morrisania, N.
The churches were stripped of images, the pulpits became high and prominent, the altars were changed to communion-tables without candles and symbols.
We confess that it would please us to see, especially in the pulpits of our country churches, a little infusion of its warmth, rejecting anything of its extravagance.
The doctrine preached in Scotch pulpitsis now almost invariably what is termed evangelical.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulpits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
