Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ventriloquists' dummies are generally manipulated for cheers and paychecks. The Rev. Loyd Corder, 37, of the Southern Baptists' Home Mission Board, has been using ventriloquism since 1942, but his art and his dummy, Joe the Baptist, are dedicated to religion...
...Austin last week, collegians braced themselves for an invasion from Waco. The strength of the invaders was fully documented: Baylor University's football team, made up of a jumbo line and backfield of brilliant performers, was unbeaten in six games, rated No. 3 in the whole U.S. Baptist Baylor, the experts agreed, had its finest chance in 29 years to win the championship of the Southwest Conference. Texas U. buffs were not dismayed. They passed the word: "Get out the red candles...
...section where Brown has been noticeably unsuccessful in attracting students is in the South, once its most fertile out-of-state undergraduate source. In fact, of the Brown alumni killed in the Civil War, almost half were Confederates who had come North to gain a New England Baptist education. But Brown has gradually lost its liberal Baptist tinge, and the Southern hard-shells have grown to mistrust anything north of the Mason-Dixon...
...compulsion. In this tolerant, pray-as-you-go condition, religion flourishes in a quiet way, and Sunday services are well attended even after party week-ends. Moreover, Kenneth Morgan, the college chaplain (a post created in 1946) is highly spoken of by the student body. He is, incidently, no Baptist, but a Friend...
...William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life...