Word: gospeleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could do with serious, non-Negro music, Harold Schmidt put on Swiss Arthur Honegger's choral work, King David. Fisk jubileers and their guests greeted the festival with everything from foot-tapping to wild applause...
...More than two-thirds of our Spanish workers have either been executed, exiled, or imprisoned," Missionary Percy J. Luffard reported to Britain's Spanish Gospel Mission. "Four-fifths of the Evangelical places of worship have been closed or confiscated. . . . There is a great deal of persecution almost everywhere, and in some cases whole churches have been dispersed...
...notes of modern culture so much harmony as the unanimous opposition of modern man to Christian conceptions of the sinfulness of man. The idea that man is sinful at the very centre of his personality ... is universally rejected. It is this rejection which has seemed to make the Christian gospel simply irrelevant to modern...
...defense of our own land, for the preservation of Christian civilization . . . through Christ our Lord. Amen." >Said Archbishop Chrysanthos of Athens, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church:' "Fascist Italy has indeed forgotten that from our land proceeded the Holy Fathers who first gave her the light of the Gospel and fed her with the milk of true reverence...
Christ is seldom mentioned reverently in a nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this...