Word: baptisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between these two baptisms-in Rome, A.D. 100, and in the U.S. last week-stretch nearly 20 centuries of Christian history. Through holy wars and heresies, corruptions and reforms, the triumphs of saints and the victories of skeptics, the little company of faithful has spread across the world. Christians have given themselves strange names and have worshiped the Father, Son and Holy Ghost with commissions and omissions that would have shocked Rome's primitive Christians. The big brick church on Richmond's statue-stippled Monument Avenue, where Thomas Davis was baptized last week, would not look to Publius...
Those two great hellfire-breathers, John Calvin and John Knox, demanded that the Ecclesiastical College at Geneva deny baptism to children whose parents were not in good church standing. They failed, but ever since, the subject has risen periodically to plague Protestant parishes. Can any child be turned away from the font, however lapsed or feckless his parents or godparents may be? Yes, indeed, say some hard-boiled clergymen...
...scruples on these scores should never be allowed to prevent the administration of baptism altogether. Our Blessed Lord was insistent that little children be allowed to come to Him. For a priest to repel an infant from the font means that he shoulders a responsibility which few indeed . . . can be willing to bear...
...first group of new Catholics was formed this morning as 24 received the sacrament of baptism. -Sister Rita Marie...
Backsliding students were not so bothersome as President Henry Dunster, who objected violently to traditional methods of baptism. But Dunster had to reckon with the Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, known to all as "matchless Mitchell a mighty man in prayer." The debate ended with President Dunster penitent, but out of office. Although the college soon came to dominate the community, church-college relations remained amicable. The President was always careful to announce the date of Commencement, so that the congregation could preserve their prayer books and cushions from destruction at the hands of celebrating seniors...