Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white pastor of the United Church, Johnson, Vt. Last fall the tense, energetic Congregational minister lived for several weeks with a Negro family in Manhattan. He wanted to find out what Negroes thought about white people. He also preached at Manhattan's big (14,000 members) Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose Pastor A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell was enthusiastic about the Negro children's visit to Vermont. So were Pastor Low's white parishioners...
Died. The Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, 77, internationally famed Baptist leader, onetime (1934-39) president of the Baptist World Alliance, for 47 years pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church; after long illness; in Dallas...
...five successive Sundays crowds have been turned away from Melbourne's Scots Church. Each Sunday some 1,000 have jammed their way in. Some 2,000 more in adjoining halls have heard famed U.S. Baptist Preacher Daniel Alfred Poling* through loudspeakers...
...that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because of "a definitely narrow and sectarian religious view and background . . . a disqualification for effective service-in the Navy's chaplaincy." He is now pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pulaski Tenn...
During his Navy service Chaplain Gatlin converted 31 sailors. But many things about his work disturbed him. He did not like to baptize by sprinkling ("Contrary to Baptist belief and practice") or "to administer the Lord's Supper to any but baptized believers." He did not like Navy orders "not to tell the men what the Bible teaches concerning salvation," but to tell the men "character stories and that they must be willing to die for their country." He was stunned by rumors about "several chaplains who had gotten drunk," and he was shocked that some chaplains swear...