Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come . . ." Yet in this wonderful painting we see the Christ Child and John the Baptist fighting over the dove, and John has pulled a handful of feathers from it! . . . Joseph and Mary look on approvingly; indeed, Joseph appears delighted...
Above all, he is the Pope of the people, in the sense that he is accessible to all. He has met more people than any other Pope in history-hundreds of thousands, of all nations, all stations and all faiths: Italian miners and French peasants, Hindu holy men and Baptist ministers, soccer players, bicycle racers, mezzo-sopranos, movie stars, perfume manufacturers, poets, bakers, boilermakers and, undoubtedly, thieves...
...painter's mature masterpieces, but the picture does demonstrate his growing genius. Beyond that, it glows with the animal drive and good spirits that were to make Rubens the most grandly physical of painters. No one ever depicted a jollier St. Joseph, a more cheerfully aggressive John the Baptist, or a bouncier Christ Child...
Ventriloquist Corder and Joe average 70,000 miles a year, making the rounds of Baptist churches and organization meetings in 19 states. Among Baptist young folk, the large-eyed Joe is as popular as Charlie McCarthy ever was. His master finds that the ventriloquist's dialogue approach is a strikingly effective way of driving home his sermon messages...
Besides using Joe the Baptist to point up such ticklish Christian problems as race relations, Corder draws a lesson from the fact that Joe can do nothing by himself. Says he: "We are all like Joe ... All of us depend on God for all that we do. Without God we cannot amount to much, but if we let God take the controls of our lives and speak through us, then we can amount to something ... I hope that God has talked through me and through...