The Pulpit
This was a very short chapter focusing on the entrance of Father Mapple, the chaplain. It describes the pulpit he uses to deliver his sermons, which is designed to resemble the bow of a ship, complete with rope ladder rather than stairs to climb up. Ishmael ponders why it is made to look like this.
"What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow."
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"What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow."
This entry was originally posted at http://ladychapel.dreamwidth.org/6320.html.