Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most U.S. Christians, Kagawa still symbolizes Christianity in Japan. Author of an ambitious three-year plan to evangelize his country, he spends much time training young Japanese to spread the gospel, once again preaches almost daily in his emotional Holy Roller style. He is still a preacher of the social gospel...
...This is] an interesting paradox: those who stand against a conviction of human sinfulness are here testifying through their own actions to the truth of the position they oppose. Professor Niebuhr, a strong "social gospel-ite," continually stresses man's "indeterminate possibilities" of goodness on earth, although . . . there is always the added warning that . . . the Kingdom of God ... is forever "beyond" the world...
...those 37 years his machine ticked ceaselessly. It kept a card index on all voters, saw that every true believer paid a poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men, or juggled ballots in the sub-basement of the impressive Shelby County Courthouse, it did so piously and only as a minor emergency measure...
Trinity Saved. Persecution was the normal expectation of the Copts for over a thousand years. When St. Mark first brought his gospel to Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
...Home Missionaries Gospel Mission, like the others, fits the oldtime revivalist tradition. ("Hallelujah!-Praise the Lord!-Jesus, Jesus!" resound through their halls...