Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being...
...Governor of Virginia. When Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, and out of their struggles to control Father Washington's ear arose the biparty system. Author Adams admits that Hamilton was the favorite child and that his gospel of Federalism won out, at least temporarily; but swears that Jefferson's liberal precepts and example have been as good an influence on the U. S. as Hamilton's have been evil...
...purpose is to portray the story of the Crucifixion as related in the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapters 26 and 27. This aim it achieves without the benefit of scenery, costumes, or dramatic action...