Word: baptisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic Church a fortnight ago, Father James Montgomery capped the ceremony by pouring water on her forehead and saying: "If you have not been baptized, I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Luci's conversion turned out to be a baptism of fire as well as of water. Almost immediately, there were angry murmurs of discontent from Episcopal churchmen-not because Luci had left their church,* but because she had been baptized as a baby according to Episcopal rites. And it is firm teaching of both faiths that baptism...
...churchmen, who seldom share Pike's pique, agreed that this time he had a point. There was no question that Luci had been validly baptized at St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin when she was five months old. Moreover, the church has always declared that any baptism following the right form, even if performed by an atheist, is good once...
...reconciling message, and the creed calls upon Christians to work toward the elimination of all racial or ethnic discrimination, world conflict and poverty in the midst of abundance. The church is to prepare for its mission through use of Christ's gifts: preaching and teaching, praise and prayer, baptism and the Lord's Supper-the permanent "equipment" of Christianity that can be changed and modified according to need...
...Lancelotians' request for U.S. military aid. Also in the script: 2,000 "incidents," or problems, with which Krulak wanted his people encumbered, such as the pesky natives on the beach, a Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native woman who wanted the Marines to arrange a baptism, scores of requests for food and medical aid, and a village chieftain who refused to deal with anyone less than the U.S. commander himself. That commander, General Hurst, had been given little notion beforehand of the devilish difficulties that Krulak...
...current rebellion against baptizing children has both practical and scriptural motives. Many vicars are depressed by the number of nonchurchgoing laymen who want to see their child christened merely as a matter of form. Other clergymen have also been convinced by their scriptural studies that in apostolic times baptism was reserved for converted adults, and that Jesus' instruction-"Suffer little children . . . to come unto me"-implies only a naming-and-blessing ceremony...