Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes a missionary? What is the drive that sends men into deserts and jungles to face fever and frostbite, indifference and hostility? When so many nearer to home need converting, why should five young Americans die in a hail of spears in an Ecuadorian jungle trying to bring the Gospel to a tiny tribe of Indians whose language was almost unknown, whose cultural level was close to zero, and who killed every stranger on sight...
...Gospel Hymn...
...Harris, who writes a religion column in the Atlanta Journal, has blown up a storm among his readers with the news that, at the recent Southeastern Methodist Conference, the Committee on Hymnology petitioned the Methodist General Conference to authorize a new hymnal that they hope will omit such oldtime gospel hymns as What a Friend We Have in Jesus and Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine. Musically, said the committee, they are difficult to sing; theologically they are inadequate...
Bellwether of the opposition to gospel hymns is the Rev. Bliss Wiant, 64, for 28 years a missionary in China (where he was on the faculty of Yenching University in Peking), and now director of music for the Methodist Church. In his Nashville (Tenn.) office last week, he stated his case. "We have to combat Communism with Christianity, and we just can't do it with gospel hymns. They dope us and they dupe us. The gospel hymn is a Victorian development-sentimental and good for nothing. Its message is that everything is blessed and peaceful. That...
Where the ministers become the strict ones is in the practical application of church teaching. Most of the ministers agree that it is a sin to waste time (80%), that foreign missionaries should not merely confine themselves to "preaching the Gospel" (more than 70%), and that the U.S. should put the needs of underdeveloped lands ahead of its own desires in giving technical and economic aid (82%). In each case, the percentage of laymen who went along was much smaller. Widest disparity: wasting time, an indulgence that only about half of the laymen consider sinful...