Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singing oldtime gospel hymns at a Bowery mission in Manhattan on Sundays is an earnest, round-faced woman who twelve years ago in Indianapolis dedicated herself to the service of God and the Volunteers of America.* Mrs. Lillian B. Ulrey claims that she was paralyzed from the waist down when friends persuaded her to attend her first Volunteer gathering. There she suddenly felt a call to rise from her wheel chair, march up to the platform and sing He Lifted Me. Cured, she felt free to marry Walter Otis Ulrey, a stocky young businessman, who willingly renounced his worldly goods...
...yeasty intellectual ferment in which U. S. churches today find themselves, such contradictory opinions on the Social Gospel have lately bubbled up to the surface of news. An older generation recalls that its preachers were excited about theology, about the infallibility of the Bible, about the threat of Science. Today most men of God are fascinated with the economic implications of religion. Judged by their pronouncements in print and from the pulpit, a majority of U. S. Protestant pastors broadly believe that a biblical heaven is possible on earth. But their chiliastic utterances are causing them more trouble, and evoking...
...outspoken. Their most vehement and powerful critic is Publisher Hearst, who is being ably aided by a Midwest organization called the Conference of Methodist Laymen. Within the past fortnight Mr. Hearst and the Methodist Laymen have been violently exercised by the following events and utterances on the Social Gospel...
...feel sure that all of my surviving associates in President Wilson's Cabinet . . . will agree that President Wilson and we, as his associates, did all we knew how to keep our country out of war, and that none of us ever heard the fable, which is now the gospel of the uninformed, that we ever had the slightest concern about the foreign loans of bankers or the industrial ambitions of the few American munition-making companies...
...final phase of a stormy career, Dr. Sun was thoroughly dis credited, and had a diminishing number of followers. Only after his death was he virtually canonized, and did his 'Three Principles' (San Min Chu I)- which Borodin mocked at in his reports to Moscow- become the gospel of the Kuomintang...