Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world problems Harry Truman applied the good-neighborly gospel: "Do by your neighbor as you would be done by." The nations must come to realize, he said, that the welfare of the world was more important than any individual nation's gain. Said the President: "We are going to accept that golden rule, and we are going forward to meet our destiny, which I think Almighty God intended us to have-and we are going to be the leaders...
...proposed Catholic Church (not yet sold to any parish) would be semicircular, with tiered seats like an amphitheater. Its tower would be two high walls intersecting at right angles to recall "the mission to go forth and preach the Gospel to the four corners of the earth...
Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings. Often he takes along a quartet of gospel singers and a soprano. Philanthropoid LeTourneau backs up his evangelistic zeal with the $13,000,000 LeTourneau Foundation...
...cinema, stage, television, the press) should be tried to revive it. Of the British people the commission said: "We are called to a far harder task than to evangelize heathen, who do worship (however ignorantly) a power higher than themselves. In England the Church has to present the Christian gospel to multitudes in every section of society who believe in nothing, who have lost . . . the spiritual dimension, and for whom life has no ultimate meaning. . . . Only a small percentage of the nation today regularly joins in public worship of any kind. The war has revealed and has also accelerated...
...load after load of returning soldiers ... we find 80% of them listen to the gospel with more scepticism than . . . ever ... stay away from religious services . . . with less scruples . . . curse more and with a finesse unbelievable . . . gamble with more avidity and defend it with more vigor . . and find it difficult to hold an extended conversation without defaming womankind, even though unintentionally...