Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neighbors figured he might someday be an orator. One recalls: ''Even when he was a little fellow, he always liked to make speeches. When he came to play at our house, he'd climb up on a stool and declaim. He was a Baptist, but when he made those little speeches we always said he seemed a lot more like a Methodist...
From one of the world's hottest spots, a letter came last week to the Rev. Edward E. Chipman, pastor of Brooklyn's Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Wrote Chaplain W. Wyeth Willard, with the U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal...
...Arthur Tripp has authorized me to submit his name for membership in the Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Of course, we shall have to wait until after the war is over before you give him the right hand of fellowship. It has been a joy to witness the saving and keeping power of Jesus Christ. In many cases I have been, as it were, speaking as 'a dying man to dying men.' Pray that God will give me many souls for the Son of His Love...
...Methodists and Baptists, the two largest Protestant denominations, have lagged badly in filling their quotas. This is partly because Army educational standards for chaplains are very high (many Baptist and Methodist ministers have not had four years of college plus three of seminary training) and in the case of the Methodists, partly because they were so pacifistic between wars that many ministers still refuse to volunteer as chaplains...
Howard Johnstone McMurray, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, who beat Republican Isolationist Lewis D. Thill in a Milwaukee German district which sent Socialist Victor L. Berger to Congress in 1918 as an anti-war representative. Son of a Baptist preacher, short, sturdy Democrat Howard McMurray, 41, is a licensed pilot, onetime Interstate Airlines operations and sales manager, onetime insurance statistician. Socialite women worked in his campaign headquarters, labor leaders supported him on the radio. His platform: post-war internationalism...