Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time a Baptist clergyman was complaining to a fundamentalist conference of that Church that the German religious philosophy " which led to the world war" was being taught in many American schools and colleges. His intention was, of course, to oppose, so far as he might, the teaching of such doctrine...
...believe in war as a spiritual Katharsis and who have held to that belief in spite of the years 1914 to 1918. And there are intelligent people who believe in communism and atheism and easy divorce and a num-ber of other creeds and panaceas which the Congregational and Baptist Churches would hardly countenance. If the teaching of one faith is justifiable, the teaching of any faith is justifiable and the question is simply one of majorities and minorities...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church Dr. Bryan lost his fight to keep evolution out of the schools, but won his fight to condemn sermons delivered by Dr. Fosdick (a Baptist) in a New York Presbyterian Church...
...session of Northern Baptists at Atlantic City was calm. Dr. John Roach Straton was hissed, but that was soon forgotten. (He had fulminated against liberal Baptist college presidents such as Faunce of Brown and Burton of Chicago...
...always been separated. Tradition or bigotry must not hamper the selection. For any man, if he be unscrupulous enough, can change his affiliations in order to satisfy the requirements, and only men of the highest calibre are barred by arbitrary rules. Chicago's president should not necessarily be a Baptist, nor Columbia's necessarily an Episcopalian. Only in small institutions such as Goucher College, does the President of the Board of Trustees resign because the President of the College refuses to dismiss a professor for unorthodox teachings. The public good, and not private beliefs or preferences, should govern the policy...