Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delhi in the spring heat of 1946 was not relaxed; it was taut with waiting, gravid with conflict and suspense. Two Socialist lawyers and a former Baptist lay preacher from Britain had sat for 25 days in the southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere...
Nonsense! cries Baptist Kenneth Scott Latourette, Professor of Missions and Oriental History in the Yale Divinity School: the world was never more Christian than it is today, not only in number and distribution of believers but also in practice of Christian principles. He backs up his own optimism with his massive seven-volume History of the Expansion of Christianity...
...North Carolina, where tobacco talks, Trinity [Methodist] College changed its name to Duke University for $1,000,000 a year of the late James B. Duke's money. Last week 112-year-old Wake Forest [Baptist] College agreed to walk no miles for some Camel cigaret money...
...Wake Forest (pop. 1,800), in the eastern part of the state, to Winston-Salem, the Camel capital. The lure: a free campus-probably "Reynolda," the 300-acre estate of Tobacco Heir (and Presbyterian) Zachary Smith Reynolds*-and $350,000 annual income. The college will keep its name and Baptist independence. The catch: North Carolina Baptists must raise $4 million to pay for the new buildings in Winston-Salem. Last week Wake Forest's Board of Trustees and the Baptist General Board voted that it could be done-and talked enthusiastically of a campus twelve times...
Wake Forest's decision to move must be ratified by North Carolina's 600,000 Baptists in state convention in November, but most Baptists thought the chances were good. The Rev. Dr. Levy L. Carpenter, who edits the official Baptist Biblical Recorder, was not so optimistic. The offer, he said, is "magnificent." But, warned he: "Wake Forest may lose its soul as a denominational and Christian institution if it accepts such a large gift from outside sources...