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...hearted intentions of Hitler's gang, but limited, unfortunately, by the whims of editors to writing minor fiction and articles on fishing. This book represents, then, the eruption of a long repressed critical volcano in which every sacred American institution from Mom down to bingo comes in for a baptism of fire. What distinguishes it from the run-of-the-mill Menckenisms and Peglerisms is a set of sound philosophical premises. The style is pungent and rings all the possible changes on the modern journalistic vocabulary, but behind it all is the conviction, set forth a generation ago by Walter...
...United Nations forces, have the knowledge to beat the Jap but have been fighting bitterly now for three months, twice across the Owen Stanley Mountains, and are tired and battered in everything but spirit. The Americans are comparatively fresh, probably much fresher than the Japs, but this is their baptism by fire, and no tougher baptism could be imagined...
LONDON--U. S. Army fighter pilots, getting their baptism of fire in the battle of Europe, have been in action against the Germans 31 times in two days supporting the RAF, which sent out an estimated 500 bombers last night for another smashing attack on the railway center of Mainz, it was announced today...
...complete merger is achieved, the United Church will accept the Bible, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, both the Presbyterian Confession of Faith and the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, baptism by water and in the name of the Trinity. Bread and wine (Presbyterians generally substitute grape juice) will be used in the celebration of Holy Communion. In governing the United Church, clergy and laity will have "coordinate powers" and an "equal voice" with bishops. Congregations will keep their present rights "unless and until the United Church may see fit to modify them...
...World, where aggressive . . . Protestantism made the retention of the . . . African religion difficult . . . the most logical adaptation for the slaves . . . and the simplest, was to give their adherence to that Christian sect which . . . in emphasizing baptism by total immersion . . . most resembled the types of worship known to them. . . . In the U.S., where neither Bosumtwe nor watra mama nor Damballa is worshiped, Negro Baptists do not run into the water under possession by African gods. Their water rituals are those of baptism. Yet it is significant that, as the novitiate . . . is immersed, the spirit descends on him at that moment...