Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Gomorrah, half-deserted by winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by last year's transport crisis, commemorated the split in 1845 of Southern and Northern Baptists over slavery...
Unmindful of Appomattox, the Baptists have been content to remain divided, because: 1) Southern Baptists are generally more Calvinist-i.e., hard-shelled-than the Northern variety; 2) basic Baptist policy abhors organization and church discipline. Baptists will cautiously unite to form a "conference," but not a Church. "Messengers" rather than delegates attend the conventions, which make no rules or decisions that might hobble the independence of each local congregation. (For similar reasons, the Southern Baptist Convention is the biggest Protestant group that refuses to join the Federal Council of Churches...
Hierarchophobes. Newest trend in the Southern Baptist Conference: the rise of younger leaders. To replace 74-year-old Conference President Pat Morris Neff, ex-Governor of Texas, the Baptists chose Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, since 1929 pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Church, biggest Baptist church in Georgia. Dr. Newton, a onetime reporter who never studied for the ministry, preaches in a journalistic style, with emphasis on current events. (Last fortnight he sailed into the resurgent Klan as it staged a tumultuous cross-burning near Atlanta...
Newton approaches temperately the two Baptist demons of Rum and Romanism. Said he last week of rum: "I don't know what the best answer is. Prohibition clearly wasn't the solution. The educational approach is probably the most promising." Of Romanism: "Our quarrel is not with the Catholics, God bless them, but. . . ." No meeting of more than three Southern Baptists would be complete without demanding the recall of Myron C. Taylor, U.S. Presidential representative to the Vatican. "We intend to keep at it," insisted Dr. Newton. The 8,000 messengers agreed...
Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind...