Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice of Sir Thomas is often raised against "the Godless and shameless Bolsheviks of Russia!" It was his ambition as a youth to become a missionary of the gospel, but instead the law claimed him until War carried this pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence...
...term about to expire and his reappointment by the conference likely unless something was done about it, the church's committee on pastoral relations voted to ask Bishop Francis John McConnell of Manhattan to assign First Church a minister who would confine his sermonizing to the Gospel...
...here I am, frankly before you, plump in the middle of heaven, to preach my gospel, and perfectly sure that such paragons of tolerance won't fail to take at least one look at the Other side, the Wrong side, the Bad Side, the False side, which up to now you have, in narrow bigotry, never touched...
...every serious writer: how to say what he means without getting tangled in the means of saying it. His second book shows that he still has something to say but is not yet sure of how to say it. Inhale & Exhale announces his creed but does not propagate his gospel...
...Egypt or the Near East, someone turns up what is called "the world's oldest Biblical text." Famed for its comparative completeness is Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th Century, sold by Soviet-Russia to England (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). For a time the oldest known gospel fragments were some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December in the John Rylands Library of Manchester there suddenly turned...