Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Qumran, in what is now Jordan, and that the members of the sect hid the scrolls in caves to safeguard them from advancing Roman legions. But who were these people of the Dead Sea? The question is momentous, because they lived near the place where John the Baptist preached the Messiah's coming, during the time that Jesus taught and the Gospel sources were compiled. And some of their writings seem to show parallels of word and thought with the New Testament itself...
Full of good spirits, the Pabst Brewing Co. has for years sent out postcards offering six free cans of beer to new residents of Milwaukee. Nobody ever turned down Pabst's friendly gesture, until last June. Then Dr. James Norwood, new pastor of the Greater Milwaukee Baptist Temple, shot off a heated refusal to Pabst's president : "It is a shame the clergy has sunk so low" that Pabst would "think the clergy would drink the damnable stuff." But last week Pastor Norwood and six other ministers attending a tristate Baptist Fellowship meeting in Milwaukee paid a surprise...
...concentrating hardest and legitimately against the father, whipping fitfully at the son in cruel, sharp gusts. Day by day the muckrakers mocked J.D.R. Jr.'s 30? lunches, his marriage to Abby Aldrich (CROESUS CAPTURED), his regular talks to the men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual matters are a tax on piety." From the pulpit of St. Bartholomew's, the Episcopal Bishop of Michigan snorted: "The odor . . . smacks strongly of crude petroleum...
Into dozens of good works J.D.R. Jr. probed restlessly, pouring millions into U.S. universities and colleges and especially into Negro colleges, spurring research into oceanography and astronomy, e.g., the 200-in. telescope at Mount Palomar. broadening out from his closed-in Baptist childhood to support fervently the Protestant Interchurch World Movement, to help out increasingly on large-scale Catholic and Jewish projects...
...tiny (pop. 550) Tioga, Texas, early in the month, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 74, became a formal church member for the first time when he joined Lone Star Primitive Baptist Church.* The conversion took place in a white frame church, after a Sunday sermon, when Elder Henry Greer Ball, a grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping...