Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
Last Sunday night and the Sunday before, a short-wave broadcasting station in Pittsburgh took a half hour of worship to the thousands of Presbyterians, Baptist and Methodist missionaries in every land...
...Rochester over 60 separate meetings were held. Lake Avenue Baptist Church resolved to raise $1,000 for Dr. Liu's University...
...original Baptist University of Chicago first became famed as the first great Rockefeller philanthropy. But in recent years, as everyone knows, it is the gigantic institution over which presides the briskest personality in U. S. education, Robert Maynard ("Bob") Hutchins...
Adolph Oettinger Goodwin, 42, Baptist, is a onetime newsman (Raleigh, N. C. Times), onetime adman (Critchfield & Co., William H. Rankin Co., MacManus, Inc.). With $250,000 capital he formed Goodwin Corp. His scheme is to build up a consumer market hy getting church people to sell products on commission. The church-going salesladies get 2% "remuneration"' which they "may" turn over to their church-a technicality to sidestep restraint-of-trade statistics. Wrappers or sales slips establish proof of sale. The manufacturer whose product is thus sold agrees to spend at least 3% of the additional volume of sales...