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...each of last week's meetings Missionary Jones set the themes which probably half a million Protestants will hear before Christmas. Samples: ''The gospel will solve every human problem. . . . The Kingdom of God is for all of Man. . . . The Kingdom of God as Jesus described it is founded directly on good will and brotherhood-life as it ought to be. . . . Poverty is not the will of the God who intended the earth to be beautiful. We could banish poverty tomorrow if this thing of the Kingdom of God were taken seriously by Christians. We have the technique...
Missionaries & money without a gospel, however, are no more effective than a gospel without money & missionaries. To most observers, trying to account last week for the Landon slump during August, the Republican gospel of salvation being preached by Alf Landon on one hand and that being preached by John Hamilton and Frank Knox on the other seemed about as dissonant and confusing to voters as the competing Christianities of a Boston Unitarian and a hard-shell Southern Baptist would be to Hottentot bushmen...
...industry was in a state of "chaos and anarchy.'' Arthur Ernest Morgan (TVA) insisted that the Constitution must not stand in the way of a sound utility program. Basil Manly and Frank R. McNinch (Federal Power Commission) preached various aspects of the New Deal's power gospel. Robert Healy (SEC) declared that private utilities should concern themselves more with "the production and sale of gas and electricity and less & less with the production and sale of securities...
...less than the Rev. Dr. Increase Mather, Harvard 1656, and of all things, it was dedicated to him in his capacity as "convertor to the Indians" and gave quite a list of names of those poor savages, "Who formerly heathen, now become useful preachers of the Gospel...
...Sankey. "Where are you from?" exploded Moody. "What is your business? You will have to give that up. I have been looking for you for the past eight years." Though they actually wrote few hymns, Moody & Sankey became as famed as Gilbert & Sullivan through promoting such collections as Gospel Hymns & Sacred Songs. At one time their hymns earned $35,000 royalties in a few months. In 1873-75 the evangelists toured the British Isles, spoke and sang before 2,500,000 people...