Word: gospeling
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...months he was in a cast, he made 173 addresses. Dr. McLaughlin promotes the Bible by putting it in snappy covers, plugging slogans like "Give a Bible for Christmas."Once, when religious-minded students at the University of Chicago handed out 2,000 copies of St. John's Gospel at a football game, later found most of them strewn on the field, McLaughlin phoned Coach Stagg, got permission to print on the back cover: "This book will help you win in the game of life. Alonzo Stagg." Next Saturday 3,000 copies were distributed. Only one was picked...
...come down from their hillside cabins to watch the Caney Players put on Shakespeare, Everyman, Gilbert & Sullivan, original mountain plays like Feudin' and Larnin'. Last week ten softspoken, fresh-scrubbed Caney Players were in Boston on an annual 5,000-mile, seven-week crusade to spread the gospel of Caney Creek Community Center...
...free of charge. Weekly one of a coterie of ministers performs the same function for him in his Peoria plant's lunchroom for minor executives. To meet his preaching schedule he travels in his own eight-passenger Lockheed plane-big enough to carry a soprano known as "The Gospel Nightingale" and the (Negro) Carolina Gospel Quartet. Dirt-mover LeTourneau calls his church the Christian Missionary Alliance, and has preaching engagements for the next 14 months...
...term. They start with talk about a hunger strike against the saltpeter in the mashed potatoes, move on into persecution of a weak, homesick child named Emery. As their pubescent restiveness mounts they are caught up in a wave of sadistic evangelism and in their efforts to spread the gospel of "cleanness and hardness," strip the weakling before an open window, force him to repeat the Apostles' Creed. Other developments: abortive homosexuality; a movement to crucify a boy who is suspected of being a Jew; ruinous invention of rumors about English Master George Toppan's misconduct with...
...sure we will continue to meet", he continued. "Right now we are like people on a ship that has been torpedoed who don't know just what to do. But we will continue to spread our gospel...