Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Elias' mother, the boy was unusual in other ways. He was born with all his teeth, she claimed, a sure sign that he had come straight from Heaven. He was preaching the Gospel before he was a year old, and at five, she said, Elias could read the Bible upside down in several African languages. With her husband out of the way, Mother Murambodoro (who had often listened to Protestant missionaries) loudly proclaimed that Elias was Jesus reborn with a black skin, and many an African believed...
...somewhere around the middle of the first century a Jew named Paul of Tarsus got converted to the movement and right away proceeded to get it all fouled up with theological nonsense. He made Jesus out to be the hero of a mystery religion, and went around preaching the gospel that all men could be assured of a niche in Heaven if they would only accept him as Lord and Savior...
Though the millions of squalling young Americans whose lives would be most affected knew nothing about it, there was Dig news for babies this week. Clattering off the presses was a revised version of the gospel by which half a U.S. generation has been raised: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $5; Pocket Books, 50?). To the original edition, which has sold more than 9,000,000 copies since 1946, Author Spock has added some 100 pages. The gist of his revisions and additions reflects the changing climate...
...lies in the great stone shadow of Symphony Hall, about half a block from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building, and accessible by subway token. It is bounded on the right by the Mai Fong Chinese restaurant, and on the left by the Redy Hot Lunch Budweiser Bar and Full Gospel Chapel. The sign says "One Flight Up," next door to Mildred's School of The Ballet...
Died. The Rev. A. (for Arthur) Powell Davies, 55, eloquent pastor of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church (since 1944), author of liberalized gospel (The Urge to Persecute); of a heart attack; in Washington. Davies often used his well-attended sermons to dissect current events: when fellow traveling was still in vogue, he prodded U.S. liberals; when Congressional Investigators McCarthy, Velde and Jenner were glorified, he blasted them as "men of tyranny." Two days before his death, Davies appeared on WABD's Nightbeat, was asked by Newsgriller John Wingate what would be the theme of his last sermon...