Word: gomorrahism
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That is how the show biz weekly Variety good-humoredly told its readers about an extraordinary show that opens in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week: Evangelist Billy Graham's crusade for New York, a city he has sometimes regarded as a kind of Gomorrah-on-Hudson. Variety noted admiringly that "for sheer activity, traffic and buzz," his advance office in Manhattan "compares with the William Morris Agency," predicted that the crusade would be the biggest "full-chorus, hallelujah, oldtime religion, monster revival" since Billy Sunday's invasion of New York in 1917. Figures supplied...
Author Kendrick, director of the British Museum, shows how the earthquake set a generation of robust optimists to muttering of doomsday. Most people in Europe believed that the earthquake was a divine visitation like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Portugal, the church was convinced that the people of Lisbon had been punished for not being good Roman Catholics; in Protestant England, the pulpits had it that Lisbon had been leveled because of the vices of Portuguese popery (although Preacher Thomas Alcock asked: "If popish superstition and cruelty made Lisbon fall, how came Rome to stand?"). It was widely...
Therefore, we and our seed must have a care not to dwell among them. For, it shall be unto the University of Chicago and the University of California as it was unto Sodom and Gomorrah! Brethren, we must not withold our life-giving power, we must spread it broadcast throughout the wilderness to produce good fruit and choke these western weeds. Only Harvard can save; we must have a care for the cancer of heresy in these black and troubled times. Amen...
...side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash. and the other southward over against Gibeah." A few years ago Israeli Businessman Xiel Federmann began to brood over the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ("and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace"), guessed such conflagrations might indicate underground gas-and underground gas meant oil. He was right. In 1953 Israel's first oil well went into operation near the ancient site of Sodom and Gomorrah...
...late John Roach Straton was a loud and somewhat lonely voice of protest against the "mechanized Gomorrah" of Manhattan's Roaring Twenties. In 1923, as pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, he set up a small radio station, WQAO, in the basement of his church, and took to the air with his evangelistic message. Said Pastor Straton: "I hope that our radio system will prove so efficient that when I twist the Devil's tail in New York, his squawk will be heard across the continent...