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...seems on the surface. A careful reading of certain confessions has convinced those acquainted with the signers that they carry a double meaning-a defense of the conduct or thought now disowned as well as an ostensible statement of conformity . . . Some ministers openly and determinedly preach the Christian Evangel, refusing to adulterate it with politics and even condemning those who preach a political gospel . . . Chinese Christians have assured many of us that they will be true to Christ, that they will die rather than renounce their faith...
When the McCarthy evangel began in 1950, the liberals saw in his distortions and exaggerations a chance to divert attention from the bedroom scene. They began to construct the myth of McCarthy's great power and his menace to liberty...
Author Fisher shows some sympathy for the hot-eyed Ahijah. It is almost as though there were some burning affinity between the old eater of stones and howler in the waste places and the seer of Hagerman, Idaho, crying his confused and passionate evangel of history in the wilderness of American letters...
...present time we are burdened above all by the worry that the government which is forming about us shows the tendencies which awoke resistance in National Socialist days: force which goes beyond all rights, internal deception and enmity against the Christian Evangel...
Neither Conservatives nor Liberals, he felt, were suitable messengers of the new evangel. ("Time need not be wasted on Conservatives, since time itself will take care of them." "A Liberal is [a person] who puts his foot down firmly on thin air.") Society's crisis called for Radicals. The first part of Reveille for Radicals is a paean to the Tom Paine type of U.S. Radical. But even Radicals must first be awakened: "Deep in the cradle of organized labor America's Radicals restlessly toss in their sleep-but they sleep...