Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baptist Anathemas...
Anathemas upon you for your ironical description of Mr. Rockefeller as "a Baptist by birth but a Christian by conviction" (TIME...
...must profess to be "a Christian by conviction" before he can ever be admitted to membership in a Baptist church...
...MARTIN Sturgis Baptist Church Sturgis, Miss. ¶TIME 's Religious editor turns the other cheek to Reader Martin and inquires, with no irony, what church the Founder of Christianity belonged...
Pirates and Preachers. Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, the third son of a Baptist minister in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was descended from a distinguished line of New England pirates and preachers. His father was "so fat he could not lean over"; his mother was "a piece of frail Dresden china." Edward, slight, studious, with keen, greyish eyes and a musical voice, failed his physical examination for West Point. He studied briefly in Germany and at Union College, read law by himself and set up as a lawyer. In two years he had one case...