Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bacon called "drys," who preach the gospel of no drinking at all, "well meaning," but said "they are doing something which is unmoral...
They are the ones who were the loudest shouters for the old hero when he had all the guns in his hand. Then he has might, and the patriotism boys were willing to accept anything he did as gospel. Now, it's a different story. You see it in many of the newspapers: little men rushing to join the new club, the crooked club, because crookedness now stands for success in certain parts of this country. Of course, there is one man behind the thing, one individual with a perverted sense of humor who is engineering the whole thing...
...Before the 140th annual meeting of the North Carolina Presbyterian synod, the Rev. Benjamin F. Hall of Wilmington complained of so many special financial drives in the church today, that "I find there are only three Sundays in the year that I can preach the Gospel of Christ." The synod unanimously passed his resolution that "the absolute dedication of life and possessions to the Lord Jesus Christ . . . must underlie any Biblical system of church financing...
...this piffle is that more and more teachers are swallowing the idea that subject matter is no longer important. They have distorted Dewey's "interest psychology" into an excuse for dumping almost anything intellectual, have taken the gobbledygook of Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick as gospel. "As I look out on life," said Kilpatrick, "I find a lot of people who don't use arithmetic; and I don't think that life would be any richer for them if they used it." Echoed the principal of a Champaign (Ill.) junior high school: "We shall some...
Died. Bishop Francis John McConnell, 82, controversial Methodist exponent of "the social gospel"; in Lucasville, Ohio. Son of a Methodist clergyman, he studied at Ohio Wesleyan and Boston universities, and as a young pastor, shocked orthodox churchgoers by insisting that aggressive good works were more important than theological niceties. As head of the unofficial but influential Methodist Federation for Social Action (1912-44), the bishop espoused labor's cause, always encouraged his fellow clergymen to do likewise: "You can't be a Methodist without putting things strongly...