Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunk in physical and spiritual disrepair. One third of the Commonwealth's children had no educational opportunities whatever. The Secretary of the new Board of Education began his work with little authority, less encouragement. Tirelessly he set about raising money, delivering speeches, holding Town meetings to spread the gospel of universal education. Without fanfare he established a Normal school in Lexington, first in the U. S. He set up and enforced a minimum school year of six months. In the next decade Massachusetts spent more than $2,000,000 on school buildings and equipment, established 50 new public high...
...hearing far too much of this supposed gospel of leisure. A true gospel of leisure will say that much may be found in work itself. . . . Vigor belongs to spirituality and indolence belongs to sin. Since when has youth come to demand security and ceased to cry just for opportunity? . . . A mania has seized men to get things and do things easily. . . . God alone can change human lives and the church must learn to put this truth into practice...
...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...