Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time people have been trying to find a phrase that will define the personality of the Rev. John Roach Straton, Manhattan preacherman. "Fundamental-ist," "Denouncer," "Loud Baptist," "Saint," "Savior," "Hypocrite," "Dolt" have been variously tried by friends and enemies; none have seemed adequate. Last week the Rev. Mr. Straton made still more difficult the task of definers by as- suming "the headship of all the religious activities of the Supreme Kingdom...
...Telegraph hardily asserted that the Supreme Kingdom was "shot through with the grossest commer-cialism." It stated that Dr. Straton was to receive $30,000 for 60 sermons. Interviewed, the Rev. Mr. Straton denied that his new office would interfere with his work as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, or with his annual winter trips to Florida. Last Saturday the Rev. Roach Straton went quail-shooting with a Supreme Kingdom underling, one "Pa" Stribling, father of William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, Macon professional pugilist (white...
When Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick accepted the call to the Park Avenue Baptist Church, he made three conditions: that the Church should erect a new building near Columbia University, should open its membership to all Christians regardless of dogma and should not insist upon the principle of Baptism by immersion. The Church agreed. It would go a long way to get Dr. Fosdick, the most celebrated pulpit-orator of his generation...
...last two conditions were not difficult to meet. They were matters of doctrine; a meeting, a solemn announcement, and the thing was done. But Dr. Fosdick's first condition was a matter of steel, concrete and cash. The Park Avenue Baptist Church took some time to work out its plans...
...board of directors, incorporate their church properties, advertise sermons in penny slogans on glass billboards. Others denounce Mammon, at the same time reminding their parishioners that it is more blessed to give than to receive. In Fort Worth the Rev. H. L. Wilkinson, pastor of the Cranberry Avenue Baptist Church, found still another way. He opened a grocery store. To meet the debt incurred by building a new church he turns his salary back into the church treasury, and lives on the profits of his store. A kindly, immensely energetic man with spectacles, thin hair and strong forearms, he last...