Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baptist Muzhiks. Dr. Edgar Mullins, of Louisville, Ky., arrived in the U. S. last week from Stockholm, where he was elected President of the World Baptist Alliance. (Tins, July 30, Aug. 6.) The Baptist type of church polity appeals to the Russian mind, in its present extremely democratic state, for each and every Baptist Church is free and independent, and all higher ecclesiastical organization is the voluntary work of churches which wish to cooperate without being subject to ecclesiastical domination. In 1914, when the Greek Orthodox Church was the State Church of the Tzars, there were only 100,000 Baptists...
Died. Rev. Thomas H. McAfee, 58, of paralysis. He was formerly pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Marion, O., where the then Senator Harding attended...
...Baptists are the largest denomination in America. The Baptist Young People's Union of America met in Tremont Temple, Boston, for its 32nd annual convention. " The Attractive Christ" was the keynote, frequently referred to by the speakers. The 5,000 delegates, from all parts of the United States and Canada, filled Tremont Temple to over flowing. In his address of welcome, Mayor Curley lamented the " growth away from idealism" in the United States, and rejoiced in the gathering of so much youthful idealism as was represented by the Young People's Union. Leaders of the convention stressed...
Heresy Hunters, Dr. John Roach Straton and 30 other members of the Fundamentalist League of New York and vicinity descended upon the Baptist headquarters at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, marched to the room of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, demanded to see the files of that office. The Board of Managers of the Mission Society (liberal to the core) held a stormy four-hour session with their Fundamentalist brethren (conservatives absolutely), and finally refused to open their files. The Board of Managers found that there were no specific, written charges against Baptist missionaries in the foreign...
...connection with protecting women and children in industry, providing mothers' pensions, resisting mob rule against the Negro. " The divisions wrought by theology and excused by theology are being healed in the sunlight of social vision. Here is where Anglican agrees with Catholic, Catholic with Quaker, Quaker with Baptist, and Baptist with...