Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last (February) issue of this cynical periodical, under the fishy eye of Editor Henry L. Mencken, one James D. Bernard, a "newspaper man who is now devoting himself chiefly to sociological investigation," took it upon himself to whack nastily at the Baptists,* of whom there are some 8,000,000 in the U. S. Mr. Bernard had read through all of 250 issues of the many publications sponsored by the many Baptist organizations of the country, and from his meanderings uncoiled into print. Thus he started his paper...
...they [the Baptists]are poor people, and those among them who acquire property tend, like the rich Methodists, to ooze into the Protestant Episcopal Church, which is fashionable everywhere in the Republic save in rural New England." In such brazen tone he went his way. "The Baptists say they have 8,000,000 members in the United States. This includes 3,000,000 colored brethren, who are recognized as having souls but are not allowed to come to white churches." Repeatedly he jabbed at foot-washing, that Baptist gesture of humility. He made phrases: ". . . the rank and file keep...
...Baptist publications: "The Baptist papers, like the churches and the 'benevolences,' are chronically hard up. . . . [They carry ads of] Peruna, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Walker's Prostate Specific, and other such quack remedies . . . flaming editorials praising the quackeries of the late Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco. . . . Some of the advertising, especially in the South, comes very close to the borders of the obscene. . . . Authorized Life of William Jennings Bryan . . . Prostitutes. . . . But in general the Baptists do not seem to be readers. The articles in the denominational papers, chiefly by pastors, are devoid of literary allusiveness, and are often illiterate...
...percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...have doses on week day nights. Walking home with a man from the library means dismissal from school." But, after all, this over emphasis on probity may, as the Dakota student so aptly affirms, "be the leaven from which a greater university sprit may grow." And though a Baptist and more inhibited than most, I sincerely hope...