Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Awed by the immensity of his own vision, devout Baptist Charlie Wilson appealed for "faith in Almighty God. Let's bow our heads in supplication," he said, "and then do the job to be done...
...club fighter. He devotes himself, 12, 14, 18 hours a day, to business. He is a meat-and-potatoes-and-apple-pie man who smokes big cigars. He flies to "get there faster." Most of his weekends belong to his family, to the Scarsdale Golf Club and to the Baptist Church. He is a fair and friendly man, but one who roars and pounds desks when he loses his temper...
...from the world of machines and production charts was still the religious faith his mother had first given him on Manhattan's rowdy West Side. It was something he never dramatized, but he had never lost a strong sense of duty to the church. He had become a Baptist in his teens, had taught a Sunday-school class of Chinese children. Later, at Bridgeport, he had organized and conducted a course for young men in comparative religions. Now, in suburban Scarsdale, he headed a drive to pay off the church mortgage...
About 35 years ago, Baptist Pastor Galloway moved to the sparsely populated farm country of Arlington, Va. and bought himself an acre of land for $300. First he built a shack to live in. Then he built a frame church, with a small pool handy so that everybody could get baptized "good and proper." But Arlington
...bungalow, but would have to go to jail, Seagrave muttered: "Oh Lord, I simply cannot sleep there." Up to this time Seagrave had flatly refused to consider deportation, now he was heard to say: "I think I would almost rather take exile from Burma." All of the Baptist missionaries in Burma were in Rangoon for a meeting, but only one of them was in the courtroom to hear sentence passed on their former colleague, who has operated independently of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society since 1942. As he left the courtroom, Seagrave turned to his loyal friend, Rev. Walter...