Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade of books and magazine articles has offered the new gospel in a dozen different shadings. It is already under attack by critics such as New Dealing Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who calls it ''a romantic nostalgia'' for the feudal class system. But as the presidential vote showed this month, conservatism is no longer a narrow economic viewpoint but a political philosophy with vast popular appeal. As Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt pointed out, more segments of the population than ever participate in U.S. business, as employees, stockholders or owners, identifying themselves with...
...notion first advanced by Aristotle, whose views on natural history were regarded as gospel for ten centuries...
Brethren, it has been proposed to us by certain of the Elders that this congregration has received a call to send out missionaries into the Great West for the purpose of educating the Indians, frontiersmen, and other savages and of spreading the Harvard Gospel unto the uttermost ends of the earth...
...virtue of this Gospel there is no doubt. From the time of our Covenant with all the mighty we have prospered as has no other sect on the face of the earth. We have grown in wisdom and in virtue, in character and in charity, in science and in health, in darkness and in light, in piety, and indeed in humility from the very date on which these historic foundations were raised up to the sight of mankind. Like manna from heaven, endowments have rained down upon us, giving us to know that our thoughts are upright and our actions...
...strongly felt that the savages have not had the preparation and education necessary to achieve grace, and that therefore they will be unable to comprehend or enjoy the abstruse doctrines which we must propound. Those who oppose the spreading of doctrine say that our construction of the Gospel will find the savage inert, with his wick untrimmed, unprepared for the marriage, and generally unannointed. They contend that our doctrine will fall upon barren ground...