Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rally, meanwhile, has gained the support of five Cambridge religious leaders. They are the Revs. E. Spencer Parsons, Baptist; Leonard Clough, Congregationalist; Kenneth Hughes, Episcopalian; Alfred Ferguson; and Rabbi Maurice Zigmond. The Rev. Mr. Hughes will deliver the invocation at the triangle tomorrow...
...come into her life, she said, in 1944 when she was 26. She was a Baptist farmer's daughter who had been married, divorced, and had a job as cashier of a Birmingham hotel. Big Jim was 36, a widower with two small daughters. He had been around the world as a merchant seaman, had gone briefly to college, had served a short wartime hitch in the Army. When he met Christine he was a salesman for a burial-insurance company...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian and third president (1920-44) of Bates College (which sanctioned undergraduate smoking and dancing, doubled in size and endowment under his administration); of a heart ailment; in Kennebunk, Me. In 1927 he emerged undefeated from a debate with Clarence Darrow on the subject: "What...
Protestantism, says Niebuhr, began to wane after 1850. "It was the affinity between Evangelical Christianity and frontier democracy which made churches of sectarian origin, notably the Methodist and Baptist, the most powerful churches of our nation. . . . But the Evangelical antidote against secularism was not to prove permanently effective...
Winston Churchill, who was not at all a favorite of Cleveland Baptist Dr. Bernard C. Clausen, who enlivened a temperance lecture with his own account of Churchill's preparation for the famed Fulton, Mo. talk in 1946. Confided Dr. Clausen: "He loaded himself with champagne and whiskey and highballs and wine...