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Word: baptiste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copenhagen, the Baptist World Alliance had wound up its meeting (the first since 1939) on a lofty note. The 5,000 delegates from 49 countries adopted a ringing manifesto: "It is our first duty to extend the rights of conscience to all people, irrespective of their race, color, sex or religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First Duty | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Negro delegates to the congress were not impressed: some of their white U.S. colleagues had grumbled about staying in the same hotels with them. So said Dr. Marshall L. Shepard, of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A.'s Foreign Mission Board. Dr. Shepard threatened, unless an apology was forthcoming, to call upon 4,000,000 U.S. Negro Baptists to quit the Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First Duty | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

PAUL S. JAMES Pastor The Baptist Tabernacle Atlanta

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Martha Ellen Young had seen the Federal "Redlegs" of the Civil War storm out of Kansas and slaughter her family's hogs. Her girlhood memories were of dances in the front parlor. "I was what you might call a light-foot Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE OLD REBEL | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...discovered a talent for preaching. One day, a lay preacher in the town fell ill and asked Arthur to take his place. From then on, though he was only 16, his fluent voice began to echo through the Welsh valleys. Old Jim skimped to send the youngster to a Baptist training college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Old Jim Horner's Boy | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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