Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stocky, square-jawed Duke K. McCall was a hard-hitting guard on the Furman University (Greenville, S.C.) football team, since 1937 has been a hard-hitting minister. As secretary of the executive committee of the 6,700,000-member Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Baptist group, Dr. McCall was lately sent to report on African missions. From Nigeria last week he bluntly warned that in Africa, as in Asia, white missionaries are now needed not as officers but in the ranks. Wrote Dr. McCall...
...Criswell, pastor of the largest Southern Baptist Church in the United States,* went to Ibadan to preach last Sunday. The African pastor announced he had decided to preach himself. The white preacher sat in the pew and listened to a sermon in a foreign language . . . The Africans [determine] the policies of the churches . . . The missionaries have no authority over the natives except that which love provides. There has been much service in the past, so there is much love...
...First Baptist Church of Dallas...
...once simpler and subtler than the others, Manzu had modeled his door in very shallow, incised bas-relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...
When Traveling Evangelist Del A. Fehsenfeld, 38, settled down last fall as pastor of the Argentine Baptist Church† in Kansas City, Kans., he started right out"preaching hard - hard against sin." But after a while, Pastor Fehsenfeld began to get on the nerves of some of his parishioners. He acted like a dictator, they said - expelling people from membership, illegally changing the church's affiliations, preaching against lodges and fraternal orders. He even denounced Santa Claus from the pulpit. "He said Santa Claus is a dirty lie," reported one member of the congregation. "Then he cupped his hand...