Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ugly Doctor. In 1902, when Gordon Stifler Seagrave was five years old, he decided to become a medical missionary in the Shan States of Burma. Twenty years later, with Johns Hopkins Medical School behind him, he began. The American Baptist Foreign Mission sent him and his wife "Tiny" to take charge of a 20-bed hospital at Namkham, a village near the Chinese border on the not-yet-built Burma Road...
...Born on Manhattan's West 134th Street, he grew up next door to P.S. 89. This made it easy for his mother, who had eleven other children, to lean out of the window and call, "How's Tom doin'?" His father was pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, now the largest Baptist congregation in the world, where Tom took up the organ...
...Pastor R. D. Dodds surveyed his slightly battered, white frame Baptist church, its blown-open door, the broken rainbow-colored windows. Said he, wistfully: "If one-fourth of the people who came to see the hole the bomb made would only attend church...
...Warden John Atkins' big night had come. He phoned the FBI in Oklahoma City, sent the Adjutant General a cool wire: "Boise City bombed one A.M. Baptist Clurch, garage...
Fifty-three years ago Brazil broke its official ties with Catholicism, opened the country to other faiths. Two generations of Protestant missionary work have gained about 1,000,000 adherents to various churches: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Pentecostal. Fourteen-fifteenths of the work goes on in a 300-mile-wide coastal zone extending from Rio Grande do Sul to Para; the tiny remainder lies in the vast inland rural areas...