Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talked to in six months who didn't ask me to give him some money to pay his grandmother's hospital bill. ... I took the job as mayor because the town was getting overrun with the wrong kind of people. . . . We used the Baptist church for a jail, then we got a little jail built and they used the church for a dance hall. Finally some fellow came into town one Sunday afternoon and set fire to our two churches. Burnt 'em down. That made me mad, so I built a Presbyterian church to get even...
...churches represented are: Christ Church, Episcopalian; Epworth Methodist; First Congregational; First Parish Unitarian; Old Cambridge Baptist; and University Lutheran. The schedule of speakers will be as follows: Monday, March 21, Rev. T. L. Harris, adviser in Religion at Harvard University; Tuesday, March 22, Rev. R. Calkins, D.D., pastor of the First Church Congregational; Wednesday, March 23, Rev. J. E. Lacount, pastor of the Epworth Methodist Church; Thursday, March 24, Rev. N. D. Goehring, pastor of the University Lutheran Church...
Escorted by the Rev. W. H. Tipton of Jefferson City, Tenn., Teacher Rose Marlowe of Williamsburg, Ky. went to inspect the partly destroyed Shanghai Southern Baptist Mission School. Seated in a parked car while the Rev. Tipton was walking among the ruins, Miss Marlowe who does not speak Japanese was addressed by two Japanese armbanders...
Henry Ward Beecher went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. His father, Lyman Beecher, was the first president of this little Presbyterian institution which was chartered in 1829 with a gift of money from Ebenezer Lane, New Orleans Baptist, and 60 acres of hilly land from Elnathan Kemper, Cincinnati Presbyterian. Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of Lane's Professor Calvin Ellis Stowe, wrote part of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Lane Seminary. A gentle decline set in 30 years ago. Last week Lane had left only 23 students, ten acres of campus, one professor, one part-time lecturer...
William Colgate (1783-1857), founder of the soap company, was a trustee of Baptist Theological Seminary at New York City which, established in 1817, was incorporated with the Baptist Education Society at Hamilton, N. Y. They became Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution, then Madison University, and in 1890, Colgate University. Son James Boorman Colgate gave the university $2,200,000 during his lifetime, and joined with other Colgates in the $1,000,000 Dodge Memorial Fund. Son Samuel gave money also but sent his sons Gilbert and the late Sidney Morse Colgate to Yale. Of the present generation it is "Jimmy...