Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bass for the Halleujiah Chorus and the Junior League trills "Stille Nacht" amid giggles at pronunciation. Beacon Hill buys tins of choclate against the evening when bell ringers and choristers will trudge up Chestnut Street. Ministers fitfully page the Bible and leave it open on the desk at the Gospel of St. Luke. Mothers hide electric engines in the clothes closet at night. Children play with electric engines on a hard-wood floor the next afternoon. Motor cars are set out into the up country hoping snow will fly in New Hampshire. In the Middle West small, angular cards with...
...York School of Art. From 1905 to 1910 he did Y. M. C. A. work, lectured for the Anti-Saloon League. Rugged, unkempt, Poet Lindsay liked to vagabond about the land, trading verses for food and shelter. His rules for hoboes: Be "neat, deliberate, chaste and civil . . . preach the gospel of beauty," avoid cities, cash, baggage, railroads; ask for dinner at 10:45 a. m., supper, lodging and breakfast at 4:45 p. m. Vachel (rhymes with Rachel) Lindsay's poetry was rich, loamy, indigenous in praise of the U. S. and its heroes. His most famed verses, however...
...pulpit is not an academic forum, nor is it a book review clinic. . . . Such an effort is a waste of time. . . . The pulpit is not a reform bureau. The gospel message is not primarily a reform message. . . . [Christ] came to save sinners, not to reform them. . . . Salvation is not by law, neither is it by works...
...annual dinner of the New York State Chamber of Commerce Secretary Hurley had prepared an elaborate speech. When he stood up, however, he mumbled something about his inability to read and tossed his manuscript to the stenographer. "That," he remarked to Bishop William Manning who sat nearby, "is the gospel according to St. Patrick...
...preach the gospel of international understanding and disarmament, of goodwill and peace," The Campus of the College of the City of New York last week editorialized for the foundation of a college Peace Department. More optimistic than many another Armistice Day editorial, it declared that adequate machinery for the abolition of war is available. So are "capable, peace-loving men." Let Norman Thomas and Bertrand Russell, both pacific Socialists, be chosen for the faculty of such a peace department. . . . C. C. N. Y. rippled politely; the faculty beamed approval...