Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accident that Earl Warren had been chosen to spread the gospel of friendliness, moderation and teamwork. His whole life has been geared to just those principles. An energetic, workmanlike administrator, he has always taken pains to ruffle no feelings, stick close to the middle of the road, and work in close harness with his subordinates...
Evangelist Billy Sunday's 79-year-old widow, "Ma," went to Jamestown, N.Y., for a Gospel Missions convention, was hospitalized with a heart ailment...
...FRANKFURT, German Pastor Martin Niemoller elaborated on his recent stand against denazification laws (TIME, Feb. 16). Only the churches could do such a job, he said: "A deep ideological change can come about only through the Gospel and the grace of the Holy Spirit. You cannot change an ideology by laws." In the hands of the courts, he said, the whole process has become a legalistic mechanism which promotes self-righteousness and "prevents the teachings of the Gospel on guilt and forgiveness from sinking into the minds of the Germans...
...morally wrong, and utterly and flatly incompatible with the way of life Christ has revealed and Christianity has established." Thus writes Rufus Jones, famed Quaker patriarch, in the introduction to his collection of essays on Christian pacifism, published last week. Few of the eleven contributors to The Church, the Gospel and War (Harper; $2) are so downright. But all of them are sure that Christians should be pacifists...
...Arkansas cornfield in 1919, Evangelist John Elward Brown planted an interdenominational college to spread his gospel of "God, honest toil and motherhood." Last week, at 69, President John Brown of John Brown University decided that the Lord needed him back on the evangelist's trail. He turned over his chair to son John Elward Jr., a J.B.U. graduate ('42) and ex-Navy officer. That made "Beddie" Brown, at 26, probably the youngest university head...