Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wasteful competition between denominations. Example: Enigma, Ga. has three churches-Baptist, Congregational and Methodist. None has a regular pastor, but they will not combine...
...feet. The humble send him gifts, and the great ones seek him out. Churchill invited him to Downing Street, and Eisenhower keeps one of Billy's red leather Bibles at his bedside. By all indications, that is just the beginning of a career that is making this Baptist from North Carolina one of the greatest religious influences of his time...
Answer to a Prayer. A few months later Billy was ordained a minister by the St. Johns Baptist Association of Northern Florida. He went on to preach "at every cowpath and wagon track in Florida." gained a strong voice, expanded confidence and got a scholarship to Wheaton College near Chicago. There he collected an A.B. in anthropology, an unusual major for a man who still rejects the theory of evolution...
...dope addicts. His first church sermon came on Easter evening in 1938, and was a dismal flop. But Billy went on practicing -mostly exhorting the fish and alligators of a nearby swamp to leave their evil ways and be saved. He preached his first real revival at the Baptist Church of East Palatka, Fla. in June 1939. Halfway through the week-long series, word spread that Preacher Graham, nominally a Presbyterian, had never been immersed. One look at the shocked and sour faces before him and Billy was inspired to announce that he would be baptized at the revival...
...Alvin Dark, captain and shortstop of the world champion New York Giants, told a Sunday-school class at the Calvary Baptist Church, Yonkers. N.Y., that he plans to give 10%, or more than $1,100, of his World Series money to his home church. Trinity Baptist in Lake Charles, La. Baptist Dark began giving "10% of my earnings to God" when he was a newsboy making $2.50 a week, has tithed faithfully ever since...