Giant Hours With Poet Preachers - Tapa blanda

Brief, Suggestive and Inspirational Studies of Nine Modern Poets – four American and five English

“Mr. Stidger is a preacher, but he is more than that – he is himself a poet-preacher with a genius which richly qualifies him to discuss other poet-preachers whom he knows and loves.” -The Independent

“The interpretations are in a forceful yet simple style, revealing the writer’s familiarity with the men of whom he writes and their work. They also show serious reflection and study, the cream of which is given to the reader in a charming literary manner.” -San Jose Mercury-Herald

“The ethical and spiritual messages of these writers are sympathetically discussed. An especially fine series of studies for ministers.” -The Christian Century

“This is a small book but one calculated to bring to the reader numerous messages from some of our modern poets. Mr. Stidger serves as introducer and medium through which the poets reach the reader. Preachers will find this book of real value to them in their work.” -The Expositor, Volume 20

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION.

FOREWORD.

AMERICAN POETS:

I. EDWIN MARKHAM.

II. VACHEL LINDSAY.

III. JOAQUIN MILLER.

IV. ALAN SEEGER.

ENGLISH POETS

V. JOHN OXENHAM.

VI. ALFRED NOYES.

VII. JOHN MASEFIELD.

VIII. ROBERT SERVICE.

IX. RUPERT BROOKE.

William L. Stidger was the most famous preacher in America in the 1930s and the model for Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry. Norman Vincent Peale and Cardinal Sheehan acknowledged their friend Stidger as the source of many of their ideas. Stidger was the first person to realize the potential of modern media promotional techniques for evangelizing. A fervent preacher with a social conscience, he invented and patented an electric revolving cross to adorn church roofs and attract worshippers. He used advertising and wrote newspaper columns to publicize his services and even supported bowling alleys on church grounds. He brought religion to the radio with his program "Getting the Most Out of Life." His tactics aroused controversy and changed the way we worship in America.