Word: gospeling
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...This is] an interesting paradox: those who stand against a conviction of human sinfulness are here testifying through their own actions to the truth of the position they oppose. Professor Niebuhr, a strong "social gospel-ite," continually stresses man's "indeterminate possibilities" of goodness on earth, although . . . there is always the added warning that . . . the Kingdom of God ... is forever "beyond" the world...
...those 37 years his machine ticked ceaselessly. It kept a card index on all voters, saw that every true believer paid a poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men, or juggled ballots in the sub-basement of the impressive Shelby County Courthouse, it did so piously and only as a minor emergency measure...
Trinity Saved. Persecution was the normal expectation of the Copts for over a thousand years. When St. Mark first brought his gospel to Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
...listeners accompanied him with clapping hands and stamping feet. They had gathered, as they did three times a week, in their curtained store-front church to worship God and seek the kingdom of heaven. Detroit's Home Missionaries Gospel Mission is typical of nearly 2,000 store-front congregations in the Detroit area, and of uncounted thousands across the land...
...Home Missionaries Gospel Mission, like the others, fits the oldtime revivalist tradition. ("Hallelujah!-Praise the Lord!-Jesus, Jesus!" resound through their halls...