Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compliments to the editor of RELIGION. The article on "Baptist Divine Norris" (TIME, July 26th) is clever, interesting, and essentially to the point...
...public has overwhelmingly rendered its verdict of acquittal and exoneration," announced the attorney for the defense last week, which was six weeks before the trial. Of course he referred to Parson Norris, the Fort Worth Baptist who shot a man for remonstrating with him about attacks on his fellowtownsmen (TIME, July...
...righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother* of the "Great Commoner" depends...
Before them was a sallow, gangling youth of 21, a candidate for ordination in the Baptist ministry. It was their privilege and duty- like stringy-bearded rabbis in a yeshiveh-to probe the secret depths of this young man's immortal soul and determine whether or no he was fit to serve their God as a toiler in His vineyard. An hour passed as they plied their searching questions-on the perilous issues between Fundamentalism and Modernism; on social service work, missionary endeavor, charity...
...believed the Baptist God would guide him in selecting a seminary to study in. The world an- ticipated that God would express Himself on this point through his servant, Roach Straton. There was no evidence pro or con as to whether the son of Roach Straton's begetting would prove a dunce, but thus far he had shown himself to be the model reverse of disobedient...