Word: gospeling
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Because devout Mr. Hildrup was reading the 14th Chapter of St. John when he died 20 years ago, Lawrence Saint used his memorial windows to show eight scenes from the same Gospel. Decked in calm crimsons, blues and yellows, like their 13th Century counterparts, Mr. Saint's saints & sinners glowed from the glass with equal clarity. A cringing Peter denied his Lord. Judas fingered his 30 pieces of silver. Jesus announced to Thomas, "I am the Truth." Jews in the Temple treasury were told, "The truth shall make you free...
...colleges, high schools and normal schools. That old Boston cooperator, Edward A. Filene, recently gave $1,000,000 to assist the establishment of co-op department stores. Japan's No. 1 Christian, Cooperator Toyohiko Kagawa, completed a triumphal tour of the U. S. a fortnight ago, preaching the gospel of co-operation to hundreds of thousands of rapt churchmen (TIME, July 6). The Kansas City Star was already warning the country that a co-operative system would be the "next New Deal rabbit to be pulled from...
...Faith, 1. That was in 1831. He was a big boy (6 ft. 4) who worked on his father's 600-acre Illinois farm in the summer, in winter taught school. After his conversion he left home from time to time to preach the new gospel. On one of these sallies he heard of a pious and nubile maiden named Sarah Pea, straightway sat down and wrote her a sober proposal of marriage. Like a good girl, Sarah shut her eyes, opened her Bible, stabbed with her finger. On the strength of the text her finger touched, she wrote...
...learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps up to date by such studies as the one he lately made of Harlem...
...their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed the Revolution was just around the corner. But while Marx was content to spend his days...