Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considers pacifism the easy way to tread. Whether it will prove to be the best way is still a matter of opinion. In any case, there appears to be no sound reason for treating a pacifist any more harshly than a Yale man, or an Eskimo or a Baptist. Different, no doubt: but not irrevocably lost...
...Manhattan, Unitarian Potter defeated Baptist Straton in the debate on the Virgin Birth. He has now won two out of three debates and has two to go. Both debaters referred to the biology of parthenogenesis. But the Baptist's best argument seemed to be that Presidents Wilson and Harding believed with him, to which the Unitarian countered that Presidents Taft and Eliot believed with...
...Straton is pastor of one of the most flourishing of Baptist parishes in New York City. He had to combat dissension on all sides when he first took up his work there, because he preached the religion that reached directly at every member of the congregation. Secret meetings of prominent vestrymen were held in an effort to oust him, but he had become so firmly entrenched, and the congregation had increased in size so remarkably, that instead of Dr. Straton leaving, the wealthy vestrymen were forced...
...Straton, who is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City, has become nationally prominent during the last few years by his vigorous campaign against vice in New York, and by his fearless expression of his beliefs from the pulpit. Because Dr. Straton does not mince words in his sermon, his doctrines have been accused of being "revolutionary", and an open bid for sensationalism. Dr. Straton, in replying in the New York Times to a specific criticism of sensationalism made by a brother clergyman about a year ago, denied that he had ever exceeded the bounds of pulpit...
...graduate of Mercer University, Georgia, Dr. Straton was ordained a Baptist minister in 1900. He has won numerous oratorical prizes, and other prizes for articles. He has been prominently identified with education and the church during the last twenty-five years, until today he is one of the foremost exponents of Fundamentalism. Tonight he will present his side of the question in answer to Percy Stickney Grant's recent speech at the Union...