Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first spiritual crisis at the age of seven, when he experienced conversion and determined to become a foreign missionary. The circumstance was astounding only to himself, for his family and environment were religious. Foretaste of the interdenominationalism which he was to make world-famed, he had been baptized a Baptist (by immersion), later attended a Presbyterian Sunday School and a Methodist young people's society...
...evangelical idiom, the hand of God, for in later years thousands were to be rescued from despair by his sympathy. At least one man he indubitably saved from suicide. Development. Health regained, Harry Fosdick finished his last year at Union while serving as an assistant at Madison Avenue Baptist Church to Pastor George C. Lorimer (father of Editor George Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post). Then, married, he took up his first pastorate in Montclair, N. J., prosperous-to-affluent suburb, which would have no youth but the ablest. For eleven years the man and his fame developed slowly, irre...
...Liberalism," conservative Presbyterians led by William Jennings Bryan, et al. styled themselves Fundamentalists and launched an attack to drive from the church all who did not subscribe literally to a few "fundamentals" such as Virgin Birth of Christ. Astute, they concentrated on Dr. Fosdick, since he was a Baptist and since, there- fore, they might win a victory by ousting him from a Presbyterian pulpit without actually having a "heresy" trial in which they were by no means sure of even legalistic success. This made Dr. Fosdick the spokesman of non-Literalist Christianity. Upon him devolved the duty of presenting...
...increasingly unchurchlike world, Dr. Fosdick has caused to be raised on the banks of the magnificent Hudson a magnificent church. To voice its presence to surrounding multitudes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has set in its tower 72 bells, world's largest and heaviest carillon. (The Park Avenue Baptist, predecessor of Riverside Church, had only 53.) Their invitation Dr. Fosdick expressed in a great exordium...
...late political Zionist, Theodor Herzl; at Bordeaux; by shooting himself, immediately after the funeral of his sister Paulina, in whose coffin, "where there is plenty of space for both," he wished to be buried. In effort to escape being merely his father's son he became in turn a Baptist, a Roman Catholic, again a Jew. Before suicide he wrote: "My situation is that of a dead man. When God wants to destroy a person he first converts him into...