In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin.
Sometimes, when much excited with his subject, he had an odd way - compounded of John Bunyan, and Balfour of Burley - of taking his great quarto Bible under his arm and pacing up and down the pulpit with it; looking steadily down, meantime, into the midst of the congregation.
It was not badly named in one respect, being in truth a particularly little Bethel--a Bethel of the smallest dimensions-- with a small number of small pews, and a small pulpit, in which a small gentleman (by trade a Shoemaker, and by calling a Divine) was delivering in a by no means small voice, a by no means small sermon, judging of its dimensions by the condition of his audience, which, if their gross amount were but small, comprised a still smaller number of hearers, as the majority were slumbering.
Kit was the best-tempered fellow in the world, but considering this strong language, and being somewhat excited by the circumstances in which he was placed, he faced round to the pulpit with the baby in his arms, and replied aloud, 'No, I don't.
The professors assist them in the saving of their time by being promptly in their little boxed-up
pulpits when the hours strike, and as promptly out again when the hour finishes.
"I am weary of my cheaply won success in the
pulpit. I am weary of society as I find it in my time.
Dimmesdale had gone into the
pulpit, with a purpose never to come down its steps until he should have spoken words like the above.
With his brain in a whirl he went down into the
pulpit and preached a long sermon without once thinking of his gestures or his voice.
The two sexes were separated by an area in the centre of the room immediately before the
pulpit; amid a few benches lined this space, that were occupied by the principal personages of the village and its vicinity.
But he never noticed it, because his thoughts were far away, and he walked up the church aisle and into the
pulpit, like that.
Hooper had ascended the stairs, and showed himself in the
pulpit, face to face with his congregation, except for the black veil.
It should have been put into the
pulpit of the Old South Church, or some other consecrated place."
On Sunday Anne confided to Marilla on the way home from church that she grew actually cold all over with excitement when the minister announced the picnic from the
pulpit.
At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a
pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting.
A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a
pulpit. It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.
