Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual healing "there could never be established scientific evidence which would compel the conclusion that it was the spiritual content of the ministrations which had brought about the cure." In an appendix on "Christian Science and Spiritualism," the commission characterized Christian Science as "in clear conflict with the Christian Gospel," and added that "had the Church faithfully and intelligently carried out our Lord's commission to heal, Christian Science would have had no reason for existence...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, elder of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, addressed a dinner of the board of directors of Union Theological Seminary. "Out in Tennessee there is a plant which turns out bombs," he said. "Here is a plant which turns out ministers of the Gospel. The two seem remote and unrelated. Actually, the issue of our time-perhaps the issue of all our human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their degrees...
Theodore Roosevelt, peering out into the new century with the eye of the new century, was determined with soul of fire that the gates of opportunity would not snap shut. ''I preach the gospel of hope ... I ask that we see to it in our country thaf the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class; but that the line be drawn on the line of conduct...
Christianity in Africa entered a new phase last week: for the first time in the two centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent's jungles, veldts and hills, the Protestant churches of Africa met together. Some 200 leaders gathered for a ten-day All-Africa Church Conference at St. Anne's Anglican Girls' School at Ibadan, Nigeria...
...telling. The film cries from the depths of personal disaster and impersonal fate that man is not the measure of all things, that life is bigger than the things that live it, that there is a meaning, for those who have eyes to read it, even in the gospel of chaos...