Word: baptism
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Thus terminated the Japanese Imperial baptism, known as the Seventh Day Ceremonies. Forth with rode out of the palace precincts aged priests to report the name of Princess Hisa, as she will be known, to the Imperial Ancestors...
...representatives are to be accorded seats of honor at the forthcoming baptism...
Manhattan newspapers, like summer-silly urchins, threw Pastor John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church and his son Warren Badenock Straton, 19, into the lake of metropolitan publicity last week. Their excuse for the "hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...
When Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick accepted the call to the Park Avenue Baptist Church, he made three conditions: that the Church should erect a new building near Columbia University, should open its membership to all Christians regardless of dogma and should not insist upon the principle of Baptism by immersion. The Church agreed. It would go a long way to get Dr. Fosdick, the most celebrated pulpit-orator of his generation...
...while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic...