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Sensation of the convention was a speech by a Southern Baptist. Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, whose topic was the sorest subject in Northern Baptism -the "invasion" by Southern Baptists (membership: 8,956,756) of what the American Baptists (membership: 1,536,276) regard as their territory. The convention press was kept busy running off 3,000 copies of his speech, which sold at 10? each...
...Baptism on the Beach
...what insane indoctrination has Shirley been subjected, that in her moment of truth she turned to the futile rite of baptism...
...valid baptism in case of necessity, recognized by the Roman Catholic Church even if performed by a nonbeliever, provided that the one baptizing really "intends to perform what the church performs...
When Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, became convinced that the Baptist position on infant baptism was sound, he felt that he had drifted so far from Puritan orthodoxy there was only one thing to do: resign. He would have been pleased at last week's announcement of a new dean for Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller will be the first Baptist dean in its 147-year history...