Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northern Baptist Convention...
...Some months ago I sent you my contribution for the current fiscal year, and in doing so stated that it would be my final annual gift to the unified budget of the Northern Baptist Convention. Hereafter, such sums as I may donate to general religious work, it is my present thought to contribute to specific projects, chiefly interdenominational or nondenominational in character, which interpret the Christian task in the light of present day needs and which are based not so much on denominational affiliation as on broad, forward-looking principles of cooperation...
Increasingly an advocate of church unity, Baptist Rockefeller best stated his case in a speech in 1927: "I have seemed to see in my mind's eye the forces of evil drawn up on one side in closely compacted ranks, standing solidly together with complete understanding and cooperating fully. And on the other side of the picture I see the forces of righteousness, the Christian men and women of this land, huddled together in some scores of pitifully small groups, each more interested in seeking to increase the consumption of his own particular brand of denominationalism or sectarianism than...
Soil primarily theological seminaries, Baptist Brown and Dutch Reformed Rutger's reflected the changing manners, the flourishing trade and wealth of their world, in more liberal purposes and methods. Chartered as Rhode Island College and Queens, both were soon re-named after important benefactors...
...last week New Jersey's Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton sat down at his House desk, began ruffling through the mail piled up during his vacation. Opening a letter from the White House, he stared for a moment, then crowed with delight. White-thatched Representative Eaton, a Baptist minister from 1893 to 1919, has since 1925 been an ardently Republican member of the House, distinguished of late for his persistent heckling of New Dealers. The White House letter, addressed to "the Rev. Charles A. Eaton," was a copy of President Roosevelt's famed appeal to the nation...