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...Baptism. In Oklahoma City, Lawrence T. Surginger was fined $6 for reckless driving while taking his driver's test...
...Infant Baptism: "There is no evidence of it iri early Christian times. Would an inquiry by experimental psychology show a higher standard of conduct on the part of those 'regenerated from original sin' than appears in others not subjected to baptism...
...South India's Protestants will be members of the new church. Still outside are about 100,000 Baptists (they insist on adult baptism only), 200,000 Lutherans (they demand acceptance of the Augsburg Confession), a small number of U.S. Methodists, and 200,000 members of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. But the 1,000,000-odd members of the South India Church are a leaven of unity that is already causing ecumenical stirrings in North India, and beyond. Many clergymen hopefully expect that it will eventually spread to England, Europe...
...Though a Sikh, the 74-year-old Maharaja shaves and cuts his hair, in violation of the Sikh ban on removing any hair from the body. But now His Highness, seeing Indian independence grow near, is trying to gain the friendship of the Sikh community. Recently he celebrated the baptism of his young grandson, who drank sugar liquid mixed by five Sikh priests, chanted Sikh hymns, and swore never to shave or have a haircut...
White-bearded Menno Simons, who gave the group its name, was a Catholic priest of 44 when he left his church in 1536 to join Grebel's movement. Then the group were called Anabaptists because of their belief in the necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...