Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Modernist? The Council's constitution forbids the drawing up of any common creed, and bars from membership extremely "liberal" churches which deny Christ's divinity. In 1944, the Council voted against admitting the Universalist Church (45,000 members). Other sizable nonmember churches: Unitarian, Southern Baptist, most Lutheran groups.' Chief complaint of most Baptist and Lutheran groups, who are basically fundamentalist, is that the Council itself is too modernist, leftist and pacifist...
Last week Stanley I. Stuber, press-relations man for the Northern Baptist Convention, echoing widespread U.S. Protestant irritation, asked why. Wrote he, to the New York Times...
...Newspaperman? He had revitalized one paper before. A Baptist minister's son, he spent 18 months in France with the A.E.F., worked his way through the University of Oregon's Journalism School (whose dean told him he would never make a newspaperman). Married while still in college, Ep Hoyt did janitor work in churches, sports correspondence for the Oregonian, spent summer vacations lum-berjacking in eastern Oregon...
...tired, lonely William Green, president of A.F. of L., got up to make the.announcement at the Miami Colonial Hotel, he seemed to have taken on a surprising amount of bounce. He was even dressed for the occasion-in a shep-herd's-check suit much gayer than his Baptist tastes usually permit. With Lewis back, A.F. of L.'s membership topped 7,000,000 once again, and C.I.O. could take warning...
...York in 1940 under the two-fisted leadership of a handsome young ex-insurance salesman, Jack Wyrtzen, whose zest for life had previously found its outlet in playing the trombone for a cavalry band. It mushroomed in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units" in the U.S., 200-odd more overseas. Average attendance at rallies...