Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian F. Reisner, who raised the money. The assembly marched to the uptown church where, after a prayer by a Baptist minister, a Scripture reading by a rabbi, a onetime U.S. District Attorney (Colonel William Hay ward) talked about money. Said...
...Masonic temple at Seattle, 2,000 Baptists assembled for the 19th annual session of the Northern Baptist Church Convention. They gazed up over the platform where were emblazoned the words of the Convention motto: "On Earth, Peace...
...keynote address was given by the Rev. Clinton Wunder, pastor of the $2,000,000 Baptist Temple at Rochester, N. Y., who said...
Died. Lue Gim Gong, 70, Chinese-American fruit expert, credited with having originated two of the best-known varieties of grapefruit and oranges in the world; in Deland, Fla. Aged 12, he came to the U. S., was adopted by two wealthy Baptist women, was converted. He inherited from these women an orange grove in Florida, began his experiments. He worked in seclusion, held prayers in his private chapel. Others benefited by his researches and Gong died a poor man. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: "The orange growers of the United States should build a monument to his memory...
These were almost the first words spoken last Sunday by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick after he had been inducted into the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan...