Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation. . . . Christianity won in the Roman Empire, not chiefly as a belief, though it was a belief, but more as a self-conscious fellowship. ... A group of 50 really devoted Christians who are not in the least apologetic and who are willing to make the spread of the gospel their first interest would affect mightily any campus in the country, no matter how great the initial opposition might be. The same can be said of an average town. The prospects for the gospel might be better if the average town had only a few dozen Christians in place...
Your uncritical quoting of his story that the Navy asked for his resignation because he wanted to preach the gospel implies that all of the chaplains who haven't been asked to resign from the Navy either do not care to preach the gospel or have submitted to Navy censorship...
...this quiet level Tom Dewey had opened his campaign. As a triumphal trip it bore not the slightest resemblance to Wendell Willkie's 1940 beginnings, when voters packed the sidewalks and jammed arenas to hear the big, attractive, tousled, hoarse candidate shout his gospel. Dewey got small crowds, few cheers, and in all probably shook no more than 7,500 hands on the whole trip. But as he returned to Pawling this week, Tom Dewey knew that it was still August. Between now and the last week of October lay much planning, much hard work...
Something of the sort may have been in the minds of Hitler's men; they had ample reason. The nation whose military gospel had been to fight on one front at a time was now getting the worst of it on three land fronts-and a punishing fourth front, the air. German war production was sagging; the Allied blockade was clamping tighter...
Facing the future, Mises is filled with gloom. He sees no willingness anywhere to return to the free market. To him there is little difference between British Liberals, British Tories and British Laborites; they all believe in the gospel of government interventionism. Hitler, says Mises, must be defeated. But in defeating him, Mises thinks it likely that the whole world will become fascist. Such, to him, is the logical end of "interventionist" economics, whether it bears the label of "liberalism," "progressivism," "New Dealism," or what...