Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the First Baptist Church, especially the men, began to be proud of him. He knew a lot. His sermons were not merely repetitions of abstract nouns and pious adjectives. When he preached, he set his verbs to work, pulling facts, incidents, aphorisms, from Classical History, Renaissance, Art, Modern Business...
...Some Baptist women wondered whether their church was entirely fortunate. Certainly young Mr. Fosdick was nothing to look at ?his face was paunchy, his black knitted* hair gave an unkempt appearance. His voice, too, retained the flat tones, the slightly nasal twang of upstate New York. There was nothing about his person suggesting the aesthete. These, however, were trifles. There were more serious causes of offence?for example, he was perpetually stepping on the toes of U. S. sentimentality. And he often refused to come to the .telephone when he had retired to his study. But much was forgiven...
Ecclesiastical preferment had nothing to do with the Fosdick ascendency. He was a Baptist ? and the Baptist Church contains no ecclesiastical ladder. The simple facts are that from 1904 to 1915, Fosdick remained in Montclair. He began to give a few lectures at Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, and finally removed, in 1915, bag and baggage to the Seminary to become Professor of Practical Theology...
Every great branch of the Christian faith except the Roman Catholic was officially represented -the Greek Orthodox, the Anglican, the Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist...
...second anniversary of the death of Warren G. Harding, President of the U. S., was memorialized at the Trinity Baptist Church of Marion, Ohio. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, son of the late Brigadier General, who was the President's physician, delivered the memorial address, saying: "His loyalty, his kindliness, his patience, his patriotism have all borne fruit. A nation mourns him. History records him. We revere...