Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which doctors and laymen combined to fight a single disease, and to its 3,000 local chapters and two affiliates, the American Trudeau Society (for physicians) and the National Conference of Tuberculosis Workers. Supported by sales of Christmas seals ($23 million worth last year), they have spread the gospel that TB is, in the main, a preventable disease, that no effort should be spared to detect it early, and that treatment must be prompt. But last week's conferees were in no mood to write off the job as done...
...India is almost as old as Christianity. At Mylapore, in Madras State, stands an ancient granite cross which marks the traditional spot where St. Thomas the Apostle-Doubting Thomas -met a martyr's death as India's first Christian missionary. As early as 325 A.D. the Gospel was well enough rooted there for a bishop at the Council of Nicaea to sign himself "John ... of all Persia and Great India...
...modern times, Christian missions have brought India schools, hospitals and model farms as well as the Gospel. Today, nonetheless, the Christian cause in India knows a growing sense of insecurity...
...just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week. Then Layman Howard Edward Butt Jr., 26, preached a sermon on one of his favorite themes: Christians must have the dedication to their cause that Communists have for theirs. His listeners liked it so well that they asked him to come back next August and preach an eight-day revival...
What Groceryman Butt means when he calls himself a Gospel-bootlegger is simply that he is not a minister and has no formal license to preach. Moreover, his regular job in the world is responsible and demanding; he is vice president of the HEB grocery chain, one of the most successful in Texas, with 60 stores and a gross of more than $60 million a year. But he believes that laymen have a real preaching role: "Your listeners will figure 'He wouldn't be talking about religion if he hadn't experienced it,' and secondly...