Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberty Street Gospel Church of Lapeer, Mich. (pop. 6,000) seats 280 people, but 400 crowded in one night last week. They stood six-deep at the back to pay a tribute to the Rev. Frank S. Hemingway-a man one Lapeerite called "as near a saint as anyone can be without being...
...would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...
...Lift Them Tonight." Fourteen hours a day, Hemingway keeps his "Gospel Radio Station" turning out religion for an audience estimated at 100,000 people. Nondenominational WMPC has 170 groups representing 40 different denominations on the air every month. Neither Catholics nor Jews have yet asked for time, but Hemingway would welcome them...
...Reverend John W. Ellison announced today that he has received a grant of $3,250 from the American Philosophical Society to do a textual study of the Gospel of St. Luke on the University's latest computer. Construction on Mark IV will probably be completed in the spring...
When Father Feeney began his Sunday sermons, he admits his idea was merely to dramatize his expulsion from the Jesuit order and his silencing. He was content, in his early lectures, to preach the dogma of "no salvation" and prove by the gospel that this was the basic dogma of the Church and the present hierarchy was ignoring it. He claims he did not expect popular support and did not intend to carry on the Sunday meetings for very long...