Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Emerson Fosdick is a positive preacher. When he stands on a platform, his body tense, dynamic, his wavy hair brushed back, his heavy-lidded eyes gleaming, then his audience, whether it be Baptist, Presbyterian or lay, knows well that here is a leader that knows his business, his mind. He is definite and outspoken. Last year he was offered the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church,* at Park Avenue and 64th St., Manhattan, from which Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin had retired. Dr. Fosdick accepted the call, with the following stipulations: that membership in the congregation be open...
...church will not lack funds. Its present holding, the Park Avenue Baptist Church, is undervalued, considering land values and replacement cost, at $1,750,000 and has several congregations already seeking it. This sum Mr. Rockefeller will duplicate. Additional gifts have been volunteered by others of the congregation, so that no general canvass for funds will be needed or made. If any shortage of funds develops, certain members have guaranteed sufficient financing. Such amplitude of money stopped tentative talk last summer of constructing a "skyscraper," church, like the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple to be built on Washington Heights, Manhattan...
Worldlings naturally began comparing the cost of this Baptist fane with that of others. The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, going up piecemeal since 1891 on 112th St. near Morningside Park, Manhattan, will cost about $25,000,000. But it is a cathedral. The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest at Fifth Avenue and 90th St. will cost about $3,000,000 and will rank next in expense to this new one of Dr. Fosdick...
Important Bible students dined in Manhattan last week and joshed each other, with an undertone of seriousness. John D. Rockefeller Jr. sat at the speakers' table. The gathering was of the Men's Bible Class of the Park Avenue Baptist Church. They were to hear reports of the committee on the new church on Riverside Drive. Close to Mr. Rockefeller were Bruce Barton;* Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation; Alderwoman Mrs. John T. Pratt; Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, onetime pastor of the congregation; and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor...
...shocked comments so far have come from Carl Milliken, Portland, Me., President of the Northern Baptist Convention; Rev. E. Y. Mullins, Louisville, Ky., President of the Baptist World Alliance; Fred T. Field, Boston, Mass., of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, No. 276 Fifth Ave., Manhattan; President A. M. Bailey of the American Baptist Publication Society at 1701 Chestnut St.; F. W. Freeman, President of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Manhattan; Rev. C. W. Atwater, President of the Baptist Young People's Union of America, Chicago, Ill; or from President C. D. Gray of Bates College, Lewiston...