Word: baptisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first large gift from a young minister--John Harvard--in 1638. But liberalism clashed with orthodoxy even at its inception. This time liberalism lost out. The college's first president, Henry Dunster, was forced to resign because of his doubts as to the validity of infant baptism. Cotton Mather, a later president wrote of him, "he fell into the briers of Antipacdobaptism...
Rosenzweig became a student of the German philosophers himself and of Christianity. At 26, he was close to becoming a Lutheran. But at the point of accepting baptism, he attended Yom Kippur services and realized the ties that bound him to Judaism. Rejecting Christianity, he wrote: "That connection of the innermost heart with God, which the heathen can only reach through Jesus, is something the Jew already possesses...
Included: a mass baptism at Harlem's Church of the Resurrection, the day-today life of a Pittsburgh steelworker. The leading article is a suggested plan for a first reading of the Bible, written by a French Dominican nun, Sister Jeanne d'Arc, for Catholics who want to go through their Bibles cover to cover without getting bogged down in the "arid passages" of the Old Testament...
Cecil Hartley gave his offspring two names, Daniel Kaye for the partner on the right, and Donald Ray for the one on the left. Clergymen in Indianapolis told reporters that with two brains and two hearts it must have two personalities and therefore should have double baptism. Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
Inside, where no gentile (i.e., non-Mormon) may enter, the two main functions of every Mormon temple will be performed: baptism and marriage-of the long dead as well as the living. Retroactive ceremonies in behalf of the dead, Mormons believe, help to bring salvation to the billions who have died during history with no knowledge of the Mormon faith. Thus the Latter-day Saints are famous for their genealogical diligence; teams fan out from Salt Lake City headquarters to search genealogies all over the world that the dead may be known and saved with the aid of the living...