Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themes of God's judgment and mercy upon men who are dead in their complacency, self-confidence or pride? Your preachers . . . are still advocating justification by good works of one kind or another (maybe very orthodox or very 'Catholic' good works); they are not proclaiming the Gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. . . . You are still preaching the Law, and a pretty easy going or romantic Law at that...
...preaching" in the open air to whatever plain folk would listen. He wrote in his Journal: "I look upon all the world as my parish...." By 1791 he had traveled some 250,000 miles, most of it on horseback over miserable roads, often braving angry mobs, to "preach the Gospel to the poor." Wesley's Journal, sixth of the writings selected by Professor McNeill, is a detailed and vivid record of the rough, violent, unequal world which was 18th Century England to all but the privileged few. It is also, says Author McNeill, "the book of a saint, whose...
...Compared with conditions in many a U.S. mining town, living conditions were good; the benevolently paternal Big' Five provided free housing and free medical service, the climate was salubrious. Then came Harry Bridges, the crow-beaked, fellow-traveling boss of the West Coast longshoremen, bearing another kind of gospel to Hawaii...
...furnished with 1000 Bibles to give to German pastors who had been forced to subsist on Mein Kampf for over a decade. As soon as Japan surrendered, native Christian leaders requested an immediate shipment of 100,000 Nipponese Bibles, and now 500,000 New Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy of the Society. They see the dream of world brotherhood grow real as the merchant in Thailand, the German student, the Arabian shiek, and the African Zulu sit down simultaneously to read the words of Luke...
...have only to look about them at their brother New England colleges and at the graduate schools of their own University to discover that their problem has a solution. If social life at Harvard is to be a normal life, the dean's office will have to reexamine its gospel and open the Houses to evening entertainment...