Word: gospeling
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...preach in nearby churches, wearing a high hat and a black tailcoat. Many of his colleagues have stayed awed ever since. For 47 years, Presbyterian Macartney, singularly unperplexed by theological doubts, scientists' criticism, or the pendulum swing of vogues, has been filling churches by preaching the same Gospel he learned at the Seminary...
Concludes Social Action: "The church, [as] the captive of the Gospel, is not a hiding place from the facts of the world...[It is] that body of believers who remember the past event of Jesus Christ in the world, who hope for His coming again, and who relate themselves to the present event of His overcoming of the world...
...music, art and the theater. "Art without Bohemianism" is a Bob Jones slogan. Last year the university marketed a 100-minute film version of Macbeth in full color, with Bob Jr., as usual, in the title role. Before the action, the star explains to the audience Shakespeare's "gospel message," i.e., Macbeth came to grief because "he did not know and love Christ...
...Twenty years ago, they were not swallowing goldfish, and this spring there were no lingerie raids on our girls' dormitories . . . We do not send out graduates to turn the world upside down. The world is already upside down. We are sending you out with the message of the Gospel, which can turn men right side...
...Church," lamented Crockford's anonymous preface writer, "is unable to attract people to listen to the gospel . . . [Its preaching] is like a safety match, effective only on specially prepared surfaces . . . The multiplication of bishops (fewer clergy and smaller congregations apparently needing more oversight, on the queer principle that smaller armies need more generals) . . . contributes precisely nothing to a remedy . . . Some bishops are still happily learned men, though their learning is seldom relevant to present pressing need . . . Far too many of them bring no intellectual gifts or accomplishments to adorn their episcopal office...