pulpit-furniture

Updated: May 9, 2025

In his own vicinity, among the lighter part of his hearers, he was called Parson Thumpcushion, from the very forcible gestures with which he illustrated his doctrines. Certainly, if his powers as a preacher were to be estimated by the damage done to his pulpit-furniture, none of his living brethren, and but few dead ones, would have been worthy even to pronounce a benediction after him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")