Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geren, Tun Shein and I. with Ko Nyunt and a Chinese college boy. Low Wang, and twelve nurses started off for Pyinmana. We got to Case's [Baptist Missionary Bray ton C. Case, founder of an agricultural school at Pyinmana] place while he was away late at night. The Friends' Ambulance Unit arrived almost immediately and while they went off for casualties we set up. They got back after we had managed to get two hours' sleep and from then on we worked steadily, with only two hours' rest, for 36 hours. Case moved...
...Most famed of Mount Athos' religious relics: the camel-hair girdle which legend says the Virgin gave to doubting Thomas; pieces of the True Cross; the skull of St. Basil the Great; the brains of St. John the Baptist; the three gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense and myrrh...
From the heart of a country once called godless came a plea for Christians in the U.S. and Great Britain to pray for Russia's victory. If the plea was strange, the source was stranger: it came from 4,000,000 Russian Baptists. The U.S. knew about its own Baptists, but the U.S. had never heard of the Russian Baptist Church, which claimed some two-thirds as many members as the Northern and Southern Baptists combined. Gasped the Roman Catholic Brooklyn Tablet: "This mass production of baptists . . . verges on the incredible...
...Marshall Field doesn't like the race issue, Publisher Powell does (see cut). No Harlem upstart, he is pastor of Harlem's 134-year-old Abyssinian Baptist Church (world's biggest Protestant congregation: 14,000). He is New York City's first and only Negro councilman. He has led picket lines, organized campaigns for jobs for Negro clerks and doctors. He is a close friend of Harlem's No. 1 boogie-woogie manager, Charles Buchanan of the Savoy Ballroom. He employs five secretaries and a liveried chauffeur. And he has his eye on Congress...
These actions highlighted the annual meetings of two great U.S. denominations last week-the Presbyterian General Assembly at Milwaukee, the Northern Baptist Convention at Cleveland...