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...eight-day convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in New York City broke two Witness records for: 1) mass baptism, with 4,640 new members immersed in five hours; 2) assembly attendance, with some 116,802 packed in and around Yankee Stadium, and another 49,027 in a tent-and-trailer camp across the river in New Jersey...
...months for the construction of 300 new churches by 1956. Chief questions: 1) Could local churches stand their shares of the strain? 2) Once they were built, would the new churches be sure to stay in the denomination, or would they drift away from total-immersion baptism into open membership, or become "community" churches? The fund was voted, after delegates were assured, by an amendment, that the new congregations will be "definitely related to the American Baptist Convention...
Mary Magdalene, writes Bruckberger, symbolized the Christian baptism of Greek philosophy. The sensual paganism of the Greeks, he contends, was really "a deep homesickness for the first Paradise, for its innocence, for its freedom of behavior." The search for wisdom was one expression of this. Magdalene, the sinner, made the great discovery that Paradise and wisdom could be found only through God's love and forgiveness...
...long military career, shifting about from post to post, Dwight Eisenhower worshiped as a Protestant who belonged to no particular church. His devout, Bible-quoting parents reared him as one of the Brethren in Christ; they believed in baptism only when individuals were old enough to decide for themselves, and the Eisenhower brothers do not remember being baptized as children. In 1948, while president of Columbia University, Eisenhower spoke of himself as "one of the most deeply religious men I know." Though not attached to any "sect or organization," he often expresses the conviction that democracy cannot exist without religion...
This week President and Mrs. Eisenhower slipped quietly into the National Presbyterian Church on Washington's Connecticut Avenue. The church's board of sessions met with them in private. Their Christian faith was formally attested. The President, after baptism and confirmation, was received into the congregation. His wife, a Presbyterian by childhood baptism, was received with him. The ceremony was completed at the church's 9 a.m. Sunday service, when the Eisenhowers received communion...