Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in Calais, Vermont (population 818), the voters of town gathered in the meeting house at Gospel Hollow to name their officers, vote their taxes, and consider the condition of their schools and roads. In addition to settling these governmental matters, the meeting was (as it usually is) is the occasion for an annual winter picnic...
...clock, it had begun to snow again and the end of the warning had been reached, so the moderator adjourned town meeting for another year. The citizens of Calais, proud of New England's peculiar institution and generally pleased with the outcome of the elections, filed out of the Gospel Hollow meeting house and went home to do the chores before it got dark...
...white-domed Angelus Temple in Los Angeles last week, dust-streaked cars from two dozen states stood bumper to bumper. Inside, thousands of men & women, mostly middleaged, were having a wonderful time praying, singing or just looking. The national membership of the late Aimee Semple McPherson's Foursquare Gospel Church was celebrating its 25th anniversary...
...equally essential . . . that the cause of freedom should not become merely a negative cause; that the defense of freedom should not be left to reactionaries, but that the free nations should find . . . a more attractive, social gospel than Communism provides. If we are to win against Communism in its struggle for the minds and souls of men, if we are to help save the world from a tyranny as ghastly as any which has hitherto menaced mankind, it will only be by recognizing . . . that we remain our brothers' keepers...
...dachshund howled with terror as news of the plot came over the radio. . . ." But other Germans asked themselves: Didn't Protocol M check with Moscow's avowed aim to wreck ERP? Wasn't the Ruhr a logical Communist objective? If the protocol was not the gospel from Belgrade, what was the gospel...