Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rivera, who too often zigged when the party zagged, was so pleased with his pardon that he worked on a huge (8 ft. by 16 ft.) canvas, depicting-according to the Gospel of St. Marx-last year's liberation of neighboring Guatemala by General Carlos Castillo Armas...
This week the safety hysteria reached a new pitch with the action of traffic officials in Westchester County, New York. In order better to propagate their gospel, they to make a short speech to each motorist as he drove up to the play booth. As they took the dime, they were to say, "This is president Eisenhower's safe driving day, so please be careful...
...cult counsels "personal adjustment." But adjustment to what? New Testament Christianity is hardly adjusted to its environment. It makes us seriously wonder, in fact, how much the social order is worth adjusting to. The gospel urges us to nonconformity: "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked...
...your fine articles on Billy Graham [Oct. 25] and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale [Nov. 1]. Dr. Peale attracts thousands with seven psychiatrists and his Pollyanna Gospel. What lady would want to "relax and be a bag!" Graham faces the facts of life and preaches the Gospel with hellfire. It wins the respect of millions. I'll take Billy Graham. (THE REV.) JOHN R. STEVENSON Burns Presbyterian Church Burns...
Mahalia Jackson Show (Sun. 10:05 p.m., CBS). Rousing gospel singing...