Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equally simple but less important is Perry Organ's series of remarks on The Gospel Witch in the third issue. Nevertheless, Miss Organ's commentaries, which deal with the written play rather than with the recent performance, are equally clear and to the point. In line with a policy of printing essays of current critical interest, the editors hope in the next issue to include an article on Edith Sitwell's phonetic theories...
...labor leaders all listen to him respectfully. Together with Eduardo Vuletich, head of labor's C.G.T., he is organizing , nationwide "Congress of Production and Social Welfare," scheduled for late March. Deputies of Gelbard and Vuletich have made scores of speeches at joint C.G.E.-C.G.T. meetings, preaching the new gospel of increased production through labor-management cooperation...
...social trend so often noticeable in the New Testament . . . In the U.S.A. a pastor or a parish worker may be approached by any man wanting his advice . . . about how to secure a good used car or something. This in Europe is not considered the proper thing for a Gospel-man to be engaged in . . . We think we are more pious, and we claim to be more directly converting people . . . Result: lack of contacts, lack of conversion...
...quits. He had made his way through all the Old Testament and most of the New, sung some hymns, lectured on the Holy Land, and delivered some reflections on the atom bomb. "If anyone had sat through the entire sermon," he said, "they would have heard as much Gospel as they'd get in a year at church...
...marriage and burial.' There is much distrust ... of what are said to be the reactionary and hypocritical views of professed Christians. There is great ignorance ... A recent inquiry among secondary-school children in Leeds showed that to many of them . . . 'words such as baptize, resurrection, ascension, testament, gospel, epistle . . . were often simply unknown...