Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother's behest, he spent the year in Chicago becoming a chiropractor. (Today Ted Adams' family boasts that he is the best neck-snapper and vertebrae-cracker in the Baptist ministry.) In 1921 Ted and Earl (now an official of the National Council of Churches) graduated as Phi Beta Kappas from Ohio's Denison University, and Ted immediately enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, where his father had studied. His first call was to the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, and within a year 26-year-old Pastor Adams had married Esther Josephine Jillson, a small, energetic girl...
Though they had no intention of accepting the offer, the Adamses felt they must pay First Baptist the courtesy of a visit. The pulpit committee put its best foot forward with a bang-up dinner at Richmond's Hotel John Marshall. The customary blessing was followed by fresh grapefruit, which, to everyone's horror, turned out to be liberally spiked with liquor. Ted Adams (who has never taken a drink) merely laughed, and everyone managed to get it down. When the dessert appeared, it turned out to be fruit floating in rum. Says Esther Adams now: "We thought...
...First Baptist employs a staff of two associate pastors, an assistant pastor and social-service director, a full-time child expert, an organist-music director, an assistant music director, a day-nursery director, a building superintendent, three janitors, a full-time hostess, four secretaries and assorted part-time help...
...blue-grey eyes, in his slow, broad smile, in his unhurried passage through a 16-hour day, baffles those who know him only casually. Says he: "Calmness is rooted in faith in God, in yourself, and in the ultimate triumph of justice." Melting Pot. Richmond's First Baptist Church is not average: it is too big and too prosperous for that. But its energy and efficiency are typical of the Southern Baptist Convention today. From Kansas City, Mo., where Baptists have a $70,-ooo revolving fund to buy sites for new churches, to Texas, where they are adding...
Back-country preachers still thunder against the evils of rum, Romanism and romance on the dance floor, and even sophisticated city preachers go in for melodramatics; when Joseph Stalin died, Pastor Wayne Dehoney of Birmingham's Central Park Baptist Church hauled a coffin into his sanctuary and preached a sermon on the evils of dictatorship (in newspaper ads he labeled it "Stalin's funeral oration"). But, on the whole, it is the new facts rather than the old, familiar figures of Southern Baptism that are important...