Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peddie's longtime Headmaster Roger Williams Swetland died of ripe old age last autumn. In 36 years he had covered the campus at Hightstown, N. J., with new buildings, made his school the pride of U. S. Baptists and a major feeder for Princeton. Last week Peddie, too, got a religious, athletic new headmaster in the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders, Secretary of the Rochester (N. Y.) Federation of Churches, onetime pastor of Brooklyn's Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Peddie trustees knew they were choosing a man whose study at Cambridge had given him a strong enthusiasm...
...street corners of Manhattan's lusty black Harlem last week buzzed with rumors, reports, allegations, accusations- all concerning the Abyssinian Baptist Church which, with 12,094 members, is the largest Protestant church in the world...
Banding together 126 years ago after a schism in the Baptist Church, the Abyssinian Baptists so named their sect because they liked the sound. They worshipped first in downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings...
...accommodate 12,000 worshippers the Abyssinian Baptist Church holds three or four services every Sunday, runs two Sunday schools with 1,000 members each. Also it maintains a Community House with gymnasium and roof garden, Home Economics and Health Education departments, a weekday Church School for children, the nation's largest Daily Vacation Bible School, an employment agency, a Music School, a Dramatic School and 53 clubs and auxiliaries. Furthermore the Church supports a missionary in Africa, a summer camp, a chair at Virginia Union University and an Old Folks Home. And lastly there is the Friendly Society which...
Twice in a decade First Church burned down. Indicted for arson the first time, Fundamentalist Norris blamed the "liquor crowd," was acquitted. After the second fire, in 1929, he raised money for a big new church in downtown Fort Worth. First Baptist Church now claims 10,000 members or enough to make it the nation's biggest white congregation...