Word: gospelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jehovah's Witnesses are not a sect or cult. They are true followers of Christ Jesus, and " are engaged in preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom under Christ (Matthew 24:14). They do not "engage in periodic spats with the law because its members like to peddle anticlerical pamphlets." . . . Jehovah's Witnesses are putting forth their best endeavors to aid the people to gain a knowledge of what is contained in the Bible. This is done in part by the publication and distribution of books which ... do not contain the words of a self-constituted "Prophet...
...notes, based upon five trips he made to Palestine, 1,000 volumes of source materials he had read during 39 years. Hall Caine's Life of Christ in its final draft (650,000 words, 1,310 pages) was published this week.* Hall Caine was not much impressed by gospel accounts of the Virgin Birth, by some of Christ's miracles, nor by all the recorded circumstances of the Resurrection. Some of his observations sound as though written from a British club window. Of 'Jesus changing water into wine at Cana he fumed: "A perfectly shocking story...
Miiller revised the Sermon on the Mount, Bishop Weidemann the Gospel according to St. John. Though both jobs were done more than 18 months ago (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937), the Friends of Europe pamphlet is the first extensive English study of them...
...there was a supreme power which could conquer all "negative or destructive agencies." She cured herself of her ailment and Mr. Fillmore got over a diseased hip. Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences"), and that Unity could, and eventually would, triumph over death. For their work the Fillmores resolved to charge no fees, merely accepted "love offerings." Of love offerings there were plenty...
...Foursquare Gospel Church in Cleveland one day last week stood Clifton Hoffman, 23, and Florence Brinkman, 21. Facing them was a chub-cheeked, eight-year-old boy, dressed up like a minister. No masquerading moppet but a real ordained parson, the Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr. was in the act of marrying the young couple. The ceremony performed, he ordered the groom to "kiss the bride." Then he added in fine fatuous style: "Come around tomorrow night. I think you'll find the sermon interesting. It is on the five wise and five foolish virgins...