Word: gospelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These men were the pioneers who opened the trail from American college to German universities and returned to preach the gospel of German philosophy, philology, and science. All but one had gone out from Harvard; all but one returned to Harvard to expound the new vision of scholarship. It is a colorful series of pictures that Mr. Long draws from the letters and journals of these cager young men, all of whom gravitated to Goettingen to hear the giants of learning. Edward Everett, who was a Harvard A.B. at seventeen, preacher to "the politest congregation in Boston" at twenty...
...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...
...Sunday would walk briskly in. Nor were they surprised when Billy Sunday strode up to Jesus Christ, shook Him by the hand and said: "Jesus, thank you. I'm glad you honored me with salvation. I'm glad you honored me with the privilege of preaching your gospel. . . . Now, Jesus, I'd like to see old Aunty Griffith...
...clergymen did not criticize the Administration, and TIME errs in printing the blasphemies of a few nondescript so-called ministers of the gospel...
...their mission completed, the Duke and the Donor sailed off in company with the Trophy for Europe. As the Normandie steamed down the harbor, no publicity-minded maiden swung in the rigging. But, holding forth in the saloon was Margaret Sanger, on her way to India to spread her gospel of Birth Control...