Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inevitable that questions should arise in the minds of upperclassmen who are taking advanced courses. In the great majority of them the material covered is of an extremely amorphous nature. Three times a week a learned professor expounds the gospel to them, assigns them a mass of reading, and then expects them to digest the heterogeneous meal without any aid, whatsoever. It is true that some courses still retain the section meetings in form, but as conducted at present, these are rarely of any material aid to the bewildered student. Conducted by indifferent section men, they often degenerate into fruitless...
...pious Gloucester man named Robert Raikes formed the first Sunday School. His purpose was to keep children off the streets while teaching them their letters, "the truths of the gospel" and "moral restraint." As time passed a further objective appeared-to lead children into church membership. Today in the U. S., 21,038,526 persons attend Sunday School, under the guidance of 2,167,848 officers and teachers in 184,686 churches. Only 17 small denominations, such as the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, do not run Sunday Schools...
...least 300 years old is the story of the boy who leaves home to make his fortune, returns in manhood to be robbed and murdered by his greedy parents who fail to recognize him. Every few months this item, with setting and characters changed, pops up as gospel fact. Last month the Associated Press carried the story as a news dispatch from Oravisa, Yugoslavia (TIME. Jan. 28). Last week Hearstpapers printed a Universal Service report beginning thus...
...Material wealth can only rightly be interpreted in terms of human lives. . . . The fundamental challenge to the Christian gospel is the fact of human fellowship. That is the gospel. But will professing Christians live up to it? Will good men be content to be less wealthy, less powerful, less secluded, if only they can give more health, greater freedom and larger opportunity to the whole body of the people...
...That's truer than Gospel," said the onetime National City Bank chairman last week. "Like every one else, I presume, I have cut down on club memberships very markedly.'' Lately he has been living at his mansion in Tuxedo, N. Y., and staying a few nights a week in Manhattan at the Hotel Plaza with his daughter. "I've said right along-and I honestly mean it -that if I could go on and attend to my own living with my name never in the Press again, it would be Santa Claus...