Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been said that nothing can be taught. This is but a half-truth, for unquestionably the ability to stimulate the novice is the mission of the teacher. Without that ability the instructor is but a pedagogue...
...knows and likes most of the men who will have to go, is popular with them. On the way home after work he hears a loudspeaker broadcasting a dispassionate critique of the Russian experiment; in the park he has a religious discussion with the deaconess who runs the mission across the street from his factory. He falls asleep on a park bench, has a nightmare from which he is wakened by one of his workmen, with whom he goes home to supper. They discuss the labor situation. When the efficiency expert finally takes his leave, he has sworn to stick...
...seriously thinking of proposing to our Mission Board that a school be established somewhere in the North for the purpose of training intelligent and devoted young men and women for work in the cultural and religious wilds of the deep South. . . . Perhaps our expensive personnel could be withdrawn from the foreign field (where the natives are losing interest in our brand of salvation, anyway) and used for this work. The conversion of Mississippi or Arkansas, say, ought to be just as pleasing to God as the plucking of some Chinese province from the burning, and will probably involve a good...
...where he was. Then he had stepped off the 20th Century Limited in Chicago, gone straight to a new dormitory at the south edge of the University campus with his three well-worn suitcases. He was using Chicago as a quiet base at which to prepare for his main mission in the U. S., the delivery of Cornell University's Messenger Lectures for 1934. Besides his ''Expanding Universe" talk he gave Chicago, while he was there, his more metaphysical lecture, "Science and Experience." He dined with President & Mrs. Hutchins, met a few socialites, congratulated his fellow-scientist...
...Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang: "I can't give you anything but love, father." Between hymns they chanted steadily: "He is God, he is God, he is God." Silently the sidewalk world listened, stared. The procession arrived at the Harlem Hospital...