Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third: There were not six speeches, but only two; the principal one by Dr. David G. Wylie, President of the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States, who was followed by Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy, Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. The General Secretary, Dr. Bowlby, in a few remarks presented to the President printed documents containing the address of former President Coolidge, and other Presidents, on the value of the Christian Sabbath and Sunday. The President thanked the delegation for calling and made a courteous response, but it is the rule of the White...
...Great is the dispute between U. S. and foreign bell-makers as to their relative skill in casting carillons. The issue cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells in Revolutionary...
...young people's wing of the Protestant churches is the interdenominational International Society of Christian Endeavor; membership, circa four millions. Especially active in it are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples. Approximately half of the young Baptists belong to it, the other half are members of the Baptist Young People's Union. Young Lutherans have their own Luther League, their Walther League. Similarly the Methodists formed their own Epworth League a few years after the founding (1881) of Christian Endeavor...
When first the Russian Communists started to undermine the power of the Russian Orthodox Church they welcomed into their country Baptists, Methodists, helped thereby to create factions in the Orthodox Church and weaken it. In time however, the Baptists grew so strong that not only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but also Russian Atheism. The Soviet Government, therefore, has lately passed several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union...
...canonized she will be the seventh saint created during the pontificate of Pius XI. Others are: St. John Eudes, who at the age of 14 vowed himself to perpetual chastity. preached in Normandy, founded in 1641 the Institute of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge; St. John Baptist Vianney (1786-1859), famed parish priest of the little French village of Ars; St. Magdalen-Sophy Barat (1779-1865), foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart; St. Mary Magdalen Postel (1756-1846), foundress of the Sisters of Mercy of Christian Schools; St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), who "saved...