Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired lumberman, prosperous farmer (income: $20,000 a year) and devout member of the Willamette Gospel Church, Harry Holt began his crusade after he saw a documentary film that showed the plight of U.S.-Korean babies, many of whom were left by their mothers to die. Others, he learned, were ostracized by other Korean children. "Harry," says Bertha Holt, "could never forget those tiny outstretched arms. Finally, he realized that the Lord was speaking to him to do something for these children...
...cross and the flag were once good partners, Mejan maintains, but the Vatican dramatically switched its policy in 1951 with the publication of the encyclical Evangelii praecones (Heralds of the Gospel). In this encyclical the Pope specifically urged "a network of native priests" to protect the church in the event of nationalistic revolts in colonies. The Vatican's reply to Mejan's book: native clergy has been the church's aim for centuries, but only recently has it become possible on an important scale, thanks to modern communications between Rome and the world's missionary reaches...
Contrary to many theologians, Miller upheld science as an integral part of Christianity, stating that science develops within the Christian gospel. Christians should understand that science is important, Miller noted, since it concerns data not affected by theology, but it cannot measure spiritual data...
...Milan's Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, 60, who, though he is not yet a cardinal, is frequently mentioned as successor to the present Pope. Said Archbishop Montini to his priests in opening the mission: "Go ye forth and speak. Your lips are opened. Preach the Gospel to every living creature . . . Open the churches! Open the houses and courtyards, schools and barracks . . . Open every doorway and above all open every heart...
...complaint is no longer that the bodies of the workers are being sweated, but more likely that their souls are being stifled in too much benevolent prosperity. Where Rauschenbusch preached the need for social organization, his successors deplore Organization Man. It is not so much that the Social Gospel is dead, but that it has been assimilated. The light Rauschenbusch lit half a century ago still burns in the activist, cause-conscious heart of U.S. Protestantism...