Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late War, "the 10,000,000 soldiers who died in it, the 13,000,000 civilians who perished because of it, the 5,000,000 widows who survive it, the 9,000,000 orphans bereft through it, the 10,000,000 refugees who fled destitute before it," the passionate Baptist orator asseverated that "at any moment some wild-eyed militarist across the Pacific ... or some hysterical session of the Senate here may drop a spark into that powder barrel" which would disastrously involve "our sons, our daughters, our business, our security...
...Curry will hold similar meetings at 4.15 o'clock every afternoon this week at the First Baptist Church, at the corner of Clarendon Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, which students who are unable to go to the evening meetings may attend...
...from a rich Roman pagan family, named Laterano. This mansion the Emperor gave to Pope Sylvestre. Within the house a chapel was erected and for 600 years called the "chapel in the Laterano house"; finally, after having been twice burned and rebuilt, it was dedicated to St. John the Baptist and became San Giovanni nel Laterano. It was early regarded as the Pope's own church, and hence as the centre of Roman Christendom. Pope Pius XI will not be able to say mass in his own church on the day of the festival, of course, because...
...queue of people waiting at its doors long before church time. For five years its pews have been jammed, its aisles utilized wherever possible. Yet not for five years has a Presbyterian preacher been the regular occupant of this popular Presbyterian pulpit. The occupant has been a Baptist all this time, a member of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, whom the church invited in 1919 to serve as special preacher. The Baptist's name is Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick. Vigorous, vauntless, straightforward, this man is as eminent and respected a teacher of men as might well...
...situation was this: In May, the Presbyterian General Assembly (at Grand Rapids) pointed out to the Presbytery of New York that, while he remained a Baptist, Dr. Fosdick "ought not to continue in a Presbyterian pulpit." The Assembly indicated that the logical way to remove "the cause of irritation" was for Dr. Fosdick to enter the New York Presbytery. Whether or not the Assembly expected Dr. Fosdick to do this, could not be guessed, but the Assembly well knew that no such assertions as those Dr. Fosdick made two years ago in the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy could be held compatible...