Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, after the worst political buffeting of his presidential life, Harry Truman turned up unannounced in Washington's First Baptist Church. The sermon topic: "The Silver Lining...
Apparently he was not so ill after all. In Boston's Baptist Hospital, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza recovered rapidly this week from a major intestinal operation. Nicaraguans had learned in the dictator's month-long leave of absence that his strong hand was over them, even from a foreign sickbed...
...question of religion-in-Russia a new voice spoke. It belonged to Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, whose Sunday morning Radio Pulpit (NBC) pulls 4,000 letters a week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...
...first Sunday in Moscow our delegation of seven divided its attendance between the Russian Orthodox Cathedral and a Baptist church. At the former we arrived a little after ten o'clock to find long queues at every entrance. The cathedral was so packed with standing worshipers that ushers were engaged in helping some people to make their way to the exits so that others could enter...
...report of Dr. Louie D. Newton on his mission to Moscow was that of a man who wants eagerly to believe the best. . . .However, it was obvious . . that the Communists had turned their sunny side up to the gaze of this cheery leader of the Southern Baptists. What he saw, therefore, and what he reported was an incredible aspect of freedom in Russia. . . . Anybody who knows Dr. Newton or anybody who knows what the Baptist denomination stands for is not going to think that the Southern Convention President is 'selling Communism.' Nothing has been changed from the Baptist...