Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode on, bleeding and battered, supported in his saddle by white-faced fellow soldiers. Although pelted with mud, the bandsmen continued to blow bravely on their instruments. General William Booth stood up in the carriage, beard flying and beak nose pointing to heaven, to direct his soldiers of the gospel and lead them, bedraggled and bloody, into Sheffield's Albert Hall for a revival meeting...
...deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
Glamourous Gospel. "China remains extremely weak in modern industry and heavy armaments, and the Communists, with all their energy, have little prospect of substantially altering this state of affairs for a long time. There is no danger in the near future of Chinese fleets and armies following the Japanese path of conquest to the Bay of Bengal or the Timor...
...already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
...China's Y.M.C.A., made it clear that Christians could not hope to put off decisions until things blow over. "The present regime has come to stay in China," he warned. "All Christians must . . . meet the challenge for a more vital faith. And we must preach the complete gospel...