Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular minister?" asked a reporter incredulously. Baptist Harry Truman said yes benignly, grinned, and looked around for the next thrust...
...common reaction among many Missouri Democrats was to ask: Who is Emery Allison? He turned out to be an Ozark country lawyer, a Baptist, Mason and Legionnaire, and the plodding, cigar-smoking, 56-year-old president pro tem of the Missouri state senate. He was also the great & good friend of Jim Pendergast, who, like his father before him, is the great & good friend of Harry Truman...
More than 20,000 men & women from every one of the United States and 48 other nations swarmed through Cleveland last week. They were all Baptists-Chinese Baptists, Irish Baptists, Italian Baptists, African Baptists and U.S. Baptists -representing the largest (16 million) group of Protestants in the U.S. To the annoyance of taxi drivers, they seemed to enjoy walking; to the regret of storekeepers, they mostly window-shopped. But Clevelanders were impressed to find their downtown streets crowded at 7 a.m., and delighted by the easygoing Baptist friendliness...
...Eighth Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, and probably the biggest ever held. Each day the "messengers" (they are not called delegates, have no power to speak for their churches) packed the big (10,000 seats) Cleveland Public Auditorium for a busy program of speeches, resolutions, pageants and hymns. So popular were the talks that once, when the convention newspaper carried a notice that extra copies would be available, a queue lined up for them at 6:30 the next morning...
...What Baptists and other Christians need most is an up-to-date language, said Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg of Syracuse, N.Y., former president of the Northern (now American) Baptist Convention. The modern mind, he said, no longer gets any meaning out of such phrases as "the precious name of Jesus," "coming under the blood," and "saved by grace." What is needed now is a Martin Luther of the new Reformation, to take historic doctrines of the Christian faith and reinterpret and restate them ... for the whole soth Century, to read, believe and obey...