Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike most labor organizations, A.F.A. did not regard willingness to join as a recommendation for membership; repentance before baptism was its motto. It planned to make carnivals respectable or break them. This was clever salesmanship on the part of A.F.A. Bulletins sent to State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A...
...meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
Inasmuch as an infant cannot exercise personal faith, and the New Testament knows nothing of proxy religion, Baptists practice the baptism of believers only. Infants dying in infancy, whether baptized or unbaptized, will see the face of God, and be welcomed by the Saviour into the Father's house. JOHN R. SAMPEY President...
...bodies in this country. It should take place at once." A candidate for union which is both evangelical and Catholic is the Episcopal Church. Last autumn the Episcopal General Convention invited Presbyterians to join in accepting a broad statement of faith in Jesus Christ, the Bible, the sacraments of baptism and Communion (see p. 54). Last week the Presbyterian Assembly, almost unanimously, voted acceptance. Commissions of both churches have already begun exploring tactics...
Much as they love and respect other Christians, Baptists love more the saving grace of baptism, the freedom of worship without the ministrations of a priesthood. Baptists may well be the most sizable group of Christians who will not march toward world church unity with the World Council of Churches (see col. 2). Last week in Richmond. Va., 5,000 "messengers" (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention representing 5,000,000 Baptists in 18 States, applauded two frank statements of the Baptist position on unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder...