Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wesleyan church in London is startling enough for several U. S. religious periodicals to make mention: "If it is more convenient or more helpful for you to attend some other church, there are several in the district." Appended to this are the names and exact addresses of Anglican, Baptist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist and United Methodist churches...
Meanwhile the latter will use all their persuasiveness and all their religious politics to bring the individual Baptist congregations throughout the country to their own way of thinking. The polity of the Baptist denomination is not definite. In fact a Baptist church has never been defined. Each congregation, provided it carries the aspects of Baptistry, goes its own individual way. Their sectional organizations are only to further what common ends they can agree upon. This status of individuality the modernists would leave. The fundamentalists really are tending towards a condition in which the sectional organization will dominate the constituents...
President. The man chiefly responsible for bringing about this quasi trust (it will endure for at least the next six months) was Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher, the retiring pastor of the Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif. All last year he traveled about the country presenting his address "Play Ball." Baptists of all shades of doctrine grew to admire him, came to call him "the Baptist unifier," even though they disagreed with his efforts to reconcile the parties. Last week he was elected President of the Northern Baptists...
...Leave a man alone with the New Testament and let him be uninterrupted and he will come out a Baptist."?Dr. Frank M. Goodchild...
...There is too much oil in the Baptist Church today."?Dr. John Roach Straton...