Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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...