Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue Book was in yesterday's mail and had such a touching taint of truth in it that to forbid its inclusion here would be more than criminal. But, though examination monitors are rather cheerless brethren. I have just found that there is an even worse outfit--the Baptists. In Herr Mencken's monthly a long article by James D. Bernard dissolves any of my fond hopes for the Baptists of the world. In truth the casual reader of Mr. Bernard's essay could easily believe that the only difference between Baptist and Moron is philologic. Now this...
...Baptists do have their shortcomings. The First Baptist Church of East Charlotte, Vermont, gave a concert last summer, an excellent concert, which about ten people, strangers and atheists, attended; the localites--up there one is a Baptist or a heathen--the localites sat outside on the lawn where it was possible to hear the concert for nothing Yes, you can call the Baptists careful at times--but then so's your--President...
...Baptists aren't the only bigoted beggars in the whole of Christendom. In Weaver's "Black Valley," that interesting novel of missionary life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...
...Baptists are not the only rough pebbles on the beach of contemporary thought. Why I know a Baptist who read Professor Lake's "Religion of Today and Tomorrow" and was delighted with its subtle sanity. There are demomorons in every church, including that of the Avowed Agnostic which, by the way, has a goodly group of them. And it is this which should worry one rather than the more presence in the would of--Baptists...
...gold. Trembling with apprehension the parents read on, ons not a long storyd for reasons which were not explained had been allowed to accumulate the dust of a quarter century. It had not been written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less accomplished countrymen as "snouting yokels." It had been written by an H. L. Mencken, aged 20, reporter on the Baltimore Morning Herald; a lad who had informed the Youth's Companion that he contemplated working up a series of boys' stories; a lad who three...