Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organization, formed this week, bears the nonstop name: Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. P.O.A.U.F.S.C.S.'s aim: "To assure the maintenance of the American principle of separation of church and state." President of the new group is Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, Baptist president of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. V.P.s are the Christian Century's Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York, and Dr. John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary...
Some of the delegates may make religion their lifework. But even for backsliders, such gatherings are useful. In his message of greeting to the conference, Baptist Harry Truman took note of this fact with a quote from the worldly-wise old author of Ecclesiastes: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth...
...powerful, primitive singing of its huge (203 voices) Echoes of Eden choir had been bringing in new members to Los Angeles' stuccoed St. Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...
...Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church, Henry Wallace spoke to an unsegregated audience of 3,000 Negroes and whites. City officials refused to interfere. Said K.K.K. Grand Dragon Samuel Green: "We'll see them later...
...Texans had a state religion, it would probably be Baptist. Of Texas' 11,000-odd churches, 3,300 are Baptist (total membership: nearly a million). In Amarillo last week, at the state's Baptist General Convention, Executive Secretary Howard Williams reminded his brethren of the obligations that go with power. Said he: "Texas Baptists have grown to a mighty people. We must not be unmindful of the tremendous responsibility which goes with such strength. More than any other group of Christians, the general conditions in Texas, both good and evil, can be laid at the door...