Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, in the heart of the Kikuyu country, is the African Inland Mission, nucleus of a vast parish supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains...
...Wake Forest, N.C., at the last commencement of Southern Baptist Wake Forest College before it moves to a brand-new campus at Winston-Salem, N.C., retiring Language Professor Hubert Mc-Neill Poteat told the graduating class that "we have in our Baptist ranks more than our share of bigots. Moreover, they have always had, and now have, their scouts and sleuths and spies on this campus, armed with little notebooks in which they diligently scribble comments on the utterances of their professors, that they may presently pass them on to our self-appointed Baptist Popes, cardinals and bishops...
...regional election posters urging, "Vote Republican!" Boisterously cheered with many a "Viva Truman!" at Rome's railroad station, he was hustled to a special VIP waiting room-so fast that Bess Truman got lost in the shuffle, gained entry only after some door pounding. Meeting newsmen, Baptist Truman told them that 1) he still favors appointment of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, 2) he'll believe Soviet disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS) "when I see it," but 3) the U.S.S.R.'s Bulganin and Khrushchev would get a "cordial reception" if they visited...
...delighted with the April 9 story on Baptist Andrew Allen of Texas. With one stroke of TIME'S mighty pen, you have put across some things we have wanted to proclaim to our Japanese Christian leaders and throughout Japan. We hope it has a wide reading among the pastors...
CARL M. HALVARSON Japan Baptist Mission Aomori, Japan...