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...celebrating in the conviction that this pioneer in religious freedom was their spiritual ancestor. Northern Baptists. During the widespread U. S. religious ferment of a century ago, the Church of Disciples of Christ (Campbellites) was formed by a onetime Baptist named Alexander Campbell, who rejected most Baptist tenets except baptism by immersion. Last week another Campbell - Rev. George A. of St. Louis' Union Avenue Christian Church - appeared before the Northern Baptist Convention with a plea for merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches were now slight. The Baptists applauded, indicated they would name a committee...
Called "Principal" because he is head of an independent theological college, Jeffreys is a literal Bible-believer, practices baptism by immersion (see cut, p. 38). Years ago he suffered a facial paralysis. Studying for the Congregational ministry, he was praying one Sunday when he suddenly felt a powerful "electric shock" which cured him. In the past nine years some 160 persons have solemnly sworn that Principal Jeffreys healed them of paralysis, blindness, tumors, cancers...
...become Admiral of the Son of Heaven's navy. When he first entered the Japanese Navy there was none, of any account. Togo was born just five years before Commodore Perry sailed into Yedo Bay and opened medieval Japan to western ways. At 16, Togo got his first baptism of fire and his first impressions of European cannon when British battleships bombarded Kagoshima, where Togo served in one of the smoothbore, muzzle-loading batteries. Three years later he joined the Navy, fought all through Japan's civil war. "At 21 he was a naval veteran of more actual...
Consure of a Harvard President for his stand on infant baptism, two attempts at forcing oath bills on the University, and a wartime cry from alumni to dismiss certain German facultymen were among incidents in Harvard's past mentioned by Samuel E. Morison '08, Historian of the Tercentenary and professor of History, addressing last night's anniversary celebration in Sanders Theatre...
...Henry Dunster, our first president, was pulled up short when he opposed infant baptism. The Governing Boards wished him to continue regardless; but the General Court forced him to resign...