Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fuller, a Baptist, was seeking appointment to a Presbyterian pulpit in New York. He was standing before an official conclave of the Presbytery. Dr. Tertius Van Dyke, liberal son of liberal Dr. Henry, endeavored to cut short the harrowing discussion, but in vain. A resolution that "owing to the confusion in the reports of the Committee on Candidates, the examination of Dr. Fuller will be referred back to the Committee on Candidates" was adopted...
...case with the Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists, the Baptists concluded their annual conference at Milwaukee (TIME, June 9), by compromising on the war issue.* A resolution was introduced declaring that the Baptist Churches would not support War. It was rejected in favor of the usual resolution that War is undesirable. Colored Members. Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor -of Olivet Baptist Church of Chicago, "largest Protestant Church in the world," spoke on "Colored Baptists of America." Said he: "In 1865 there were about 400,000 Baptists of color. . . . They rallied to it (The Baptist Church) in larger numbers than...
...attacked drunkenness and sexual immorality, but has, like a cur, kept safely away from dangerous enemies such as the greed of Mammon and the lust of Mars. Nevertheless, he contends that the Anglican Church (like the Eastern Orthodox) is apostolic, whereas the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Churches (Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.) have departed so far from the faith that they are not apostolic. He sees some prospect for union with the Eastern Churches, but none with the others. Finally, he prays that all may unite in boldly attacking the sins of the age-money-making, pleasure-hunting...
Denominationalism in the U. S. is accustomed to justify itself by the thought that Truth appears to man in many different forms. With this and other commonplaces, the average American protestant evades the horrible thought that if the Presbyterian Church is the one true church, the Baptist Church...
John Roach Straton, so-called "divine chatterbox": "In a statement issued from my Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, I pointed out that Harvard students did not jeer at me on the occasion of a recent speech by me in Cambridge, as was alleged. Said I: 'It is true that some of the students disagreed with me and, indeed questioned me sharply. But, they did so with courtesy, in good spirit, and in general I was treated with the utmost respect. ... At the conclusion of the meeting there was great applause, but I heard no jeering...