Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be accomodated. Harvard's Puritan fathers went even further to lure the Indians into the college where they might be instilled with Christianity. For besides having their own dormitory, most of the aborigines had their expenses paid by friends who were formed into a "Society for Propagating the Gospel", in favor of which odd amounts of pounds and shillings are listed on the old budgets...
...roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first U. S. job was in a Morris Heights, N. Y. shipyard, as reamer and riveter at $1.75 per day. Evenings he spent in his boarding house, improving his English by listening to the landlady's children. When...
...zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes of the nearby Chevrolet plant, but a few were employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave him a choice of quitting his agitating or quitting his pulpit. He quit the latter, went...
This commencement was part of the 14th International Convention of Sister Aimee's Foursquare Gospel Church. Delegates from 357 U. S. and Canadian churches, foreign missionaries and 12,000 Los Angeles faithful heard Mrs. McPherson preach thrice daily, attended a Pentecostal Fire Rally lasting from 6 a. m. until midnight and involving shouting, ''speaking in tongues," sermons on such subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which...
...honor. And when the power of personal attraction is reinforced by the glamor of the throne, the moral obligation is more urgent for that reason. "Thirdly, let us remember that any kind of love which can be in conflict with duty is not the love of which the Gospel speaks. Love which has its roots in mutual attraction and passion can be united with love which is the very nature of God and the best of Christian graces and this takes place in a multitude of marriages...