Word: baptiste
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Charles the Baptist. The son of a Baptist Minister, he read Greek at eight, graduated from Brown University at 19, studied law and joined a Manhattan law firm. The public first heard of him in 1905. Appointed a special counsel, he investigated a scandalous gas monopoly and won a consequential cut in rates. He also uncovered a venal conspiracy between city officials and New York insurance firms. On the strength of these crusades, he was elected governor of New York over the Democratic nominee, William Randolph Hearst...
...reform governor who despised ward politics, he exasperated the politicians, who dubbed him "Charles the Baptist." Nevertheless, he was reelected. Taft appointed him to the Supreme Court (where he stayed until his unsuccessful race for the presidency); Harding made him his Secretary of State...
Some 15 years ago, when young Pastor Marcus Bach first went to his Evangelical pulpit in the town he calls Fairfield, Kans., most of Fairfield's farmers and cattlemen were members of the Evangelical and Baptist churches. The same kinds of cars nuzzled the two churches on Sunday mornings and the same kinds of Godfearing Kansans sang and prayed inside. Why shouldn't the two become one flock? To Pastor Bach and the young Baptist preacher across the way, the 200-odd-sect division of Protestantism in the U.S. was "inherently wrong and sinful...
...shouldn't there be denominations?" asked one Baptist leader. "Lots of them. All kinds of them . . . Some folks want candles burning in the church. Others don't. Some like one song. Others like another kind . . . Practice what you believe . . . Good fences make good neighbors, as every farmer knows...
...hospital had raised some opposition. Ninety members of Corinth Baptist got out; they objected to the diversion of their $39,000 building fund (the congregation now worships in a private house), objected to the pastor's leasing the old building to Mrs. Starr for 20 years at a sum so low he refuses to name...