60 PLAN OF TRINITY CHURCH 66 INTERIOR OF HOLY TRINITY, FROM THE WEST 68 NORTH SIDE OF NAVEEASTERN BAYS 71 PULPIT 73 ARCHWAY BETWEEN THE NORTH PORCH AND ST.

On the west side where is now a canopied niche was formerly an external pulpit reached from within by the staircase which leads to the roof.

The pulpit is of brass and wrought iron, the work of Frank Skidmore a native of Coventry who made also the choir screen of Hereford Cathedral and the metal work of the Albert Memorial at Kensington.

Attached to this south-east tower pier is the stone pulpit, one of the two special glories of the church, the other being the brass eagle.

The pulpit is either contemporary with the pier or nearly so.

Very few examples of this class of pulpit exist in England, and none equal in importance.

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The pulpit is of stone and quite new, and the font, erected in 1843, is a copy of that of St. Edward's, Cambridge.

Pulpit, 56. Spire, 32.

Pulpit, 72.

He had no salary for preaching, except for a few months, perhaps not five hundred dollars for forty years of pulpit labor.

A good many of us worked hard for it, especially the boys in the round pews near the pulpit, who had reason to think that the prize would fall to one of their number.

A big man, in a large black silk gown, got up, and delivered a sermon; but we did not heed it as we ought to have done, because some tea-chests were ranged along at the base of the pulpit.

Sentimentalists shed barrels of tears over the wrongs of the Indians, the horrors of the Ben Wright massacre were recapitulated with all manner of untruthful variations, and the great Beecher from the pulpit of his Brooklyn tabernacle sent up a prayer for "that poor, persecuted people whose long pent up wrongs had driven them to acts of outrage and diabolical murder."

A priest was speaking from a pulpit in the centre, in the Bohemian language, which not being the most intelligible, I went to the other end to see the shrine of the holy Johannes of Nepomuck.

A clergyman in the State of New York, through the influence of a disaffected member, was unfairly and precipitately deprived of his pulpit, which involved a large family in necessity.

It arrived after church service had begun; the sexton was unwilling to carry it to the pulpit, as it was against the rule, but when told he must, as a life was in great danger, he consented, and delivered it to the pastor.

The roof of the nave is formed of fine woodwork of the Perpendicular period, but the pulpit, a splendid piece of fourteenth-century oak carving, claims the chief interest, being the same from which the great reformer preached.

The base has been renewed, and the rest has been much repaired, but the same pulpit has been in use for more than 500 years.

[Illustration: WYCLIFF'S PULPIT IN LUTTERWORTH CHURCH.

The road from the village rises gradually, passing the masses of rock known as the "Lion," the "Castle Rock," the "Pulpit," and others, named from their wonderful resemblance to the work of human hands.

Goodness of his sort is commandingthe practical power of a pure life is a pulpit asset that reenforces the spoken word beyond all human calculation.

Nature had given him the outward semblance of a foreigner and an ascetic; a life-long study of ecclesiastical rhetoric had stamped him with a mannerism which belongs peculiarly to the pulpit.

When you see his graceful figure and clean-shaven ecclesiastical face in the pulpit of his strangely old-fashioned church, or catch the vibrating notes of his beautifully modulated voice in "The hush of our dread high altar, Where The Abbey makes us We," you feel yourself in the presence of a born ecclesiastic, called from his cradle by an irresistible vocation to a separate and sanctified career.

His practical wisdom informed him, that, from the beginning even until then, qualities like his had not found a happy sphere of action in the pulpit, but, on the contrary, had rusted or grown ugly in it.