When someone first attends university he invariably goes with glad tidings and material benefits from parents—providing him, for instance, with a full wardrobe, extra pocket money, and presents from relatives.
We remember when the first glad tidings were announced, with what joy they were received!
I would hope that the spring will bring us glad tidings.
It will bring glad tidings of comfort and joy to parents throughout the country.
I am pleased to bear glad tidings from my own country.
It may well be that the agricultural labourers will shout the glad tidings from hedge to hedge.