Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your explanation of the several references in TIME to Mr. Roosevelt's physical infirmities only makes a bad matter worse. There is no excuse for such writing. TIME, frankly, needs some lessons in good manners. It lacks the fundamental virtue of reverence. . DAVID P. GAINES Minister First Baptist Church Waterbury, Conn. Sirs: . . . Don't let TIME descend to the stilted, prudish, uninteresting style of so many news publications. It makes the readers' picture more accurate to know whether a man struts, or gallops, or limps or hobbles. What's the difference? RALPH P. STODDARD Cleveland...
Meeting in Indianapolis last week, the Federal Council of The Churches of Christ in America settled its affairs with calm and dispatch. After electing Rev. Dr. Albert William Beaven, evangelical Baptist, its new president (TIME, Dec. 12), the Council gave its vice-presidency, a new office, to Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they...
...sweet uses of Charity, few men are more versed than John D. Rockefeller Jr., good Baptist. None knows better than he that it is more blessed to give than to beg. Last week, having himself given $35,000 to a Jewish charities campaign in Manhattan and, with the Rockefeller Foundation, $1,050,000 to the Emergency Unemployment Relief Campaign, he delivered a little lecture on the begging phase of Charity to a luncheon for relief workers. Said...
When Dr. Beaven preached his farewell sermon, there was weeping in Lake Avenue Baptist Church. Under its new president Colgate-Rochester (product of a merger in 1928) has grown in stature. This autumn was dedicated its new $2,000,000 Gothic plant, largely the gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fond of bowling as well as of chopping wood. Dr. Beaven saw to it that bowling alleys were built at the Divinity School. He is tall, well set up, grey-haired, father of three (a fourth child died). On his way to Indianapolis last week Dr. Beaven stopped...
...last week no U. S. Protestant denomination had given full, official approval to Re-Thinking Missions, the report made public last month by the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry (TIME, Nov. 28). Of the seven denominations whose laymen were concerned in the Inquiry, only three mission boards-Methodist, Baptist. Congregational - have guardedly agreed to cooperate...