Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...
Alabama cops arrested their first suspects next day. One was Horn, 39-year-old pastor of three Baptist churches. The other was Claude Luker, an owner of a Talladega furniture store-and of the maroon Chevrolet. The charge: murder "with malice aforethought." Police later picked up Louis Harrison, Cyclops of the Pell City Klan and athletic director of the big Avondale textile mills. He gave cops a list of members in his Klavern. This time it looked as if the Klan might not get away with its reign of terror...
...Cathedral on Ash Wednesday for a day of services devoted to "God, Man and the Hydrogen Bomb." Forty ministers joined in the Communion service. A Lutheran read the Epistle: "Spare thy people, O Lord . . ."A Negro Congregationalist read the Gospel: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth . . ."A Baptist preached the sermon: "Science and invention cannot save us ... The future destiny of man on this planet depends on how soon and low well mankind learns the two lessons : Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart . . .' and 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself...
...based their advice on necessity of avoiding idolatrous service to the emperor-never on the individual right of avoiding combat against the state's aggressors . .. The Old Testament glorified war enterprises such as that of the Maccabees, while hundreds of soldiers were baptized in Jordan by John the Baptist . . . Neither did Christ warn the good centurion against fighting...
...question of Christianity's efficacy in the modern world was discussed last night by the Reverend Samuel Miller, minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, and Henry D. Alken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, in a debate which took place in Emerson...