Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baptist Missionary Charles A. Mattison, India's Famine Commissioner ... D.D. Mark Skinner Watson, Sunday editor (Baltimore...
...Preaching is doomed," cried a preacher last week at the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington. He was Dr. Bernard Chancellor Clausen, slight, blond, emphatic pastor of Syracuse, N. Y.'s First Baptist Church, a onetime Navy chaplain and communications officer on the U. S. cruiser North Carolina. Dr. Clausen began broadcasting sermons in 1920. He now speaks eight or ten sentences to "appropriate" music in a morning radio service, conducts a Saturday night radio Bible class with dramatized Bible stories. Last February Dr. Clausen spoke by air to the "largest audience of Baptists ever assembled," his listeners tuning...
...Refrained, after brisk debate, from withdrawing from the Federal Council, and from repudiating the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry which was financed by Baptist John D. Rockefeller Jr. ¶ Came out for peace and disarmament, flayed Repeal and sweatshops. ¶ Elected as president Dr. William Shattuck Abernethy of Washington's Calvary Baptist Church...
Died. Dr. William Joseph McGlothlin, 65, president of Furman University (Greenville. S. C.); of injuries suffered in an automobile wreck while driving to the Southern Baptist Convention; in Gastonia; N. C. His wife, Mary Brezeale McGlothlin, was also killed...
...with a young Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems to have offended him, but this tactless reminder was too much for even his cynicism: thereafter it was distinctly understood that the Anthem should never be played...