Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chaplain was Lieut. Colonel Warren E. Ferguson, 38, a veteran of the Normandy and northern France campaigns who holds the Silver Star and Purple Heart, and a Southern Baptist who did his prewar preaching in Tupelo, Miss...
Sitting near the 45-voice choir, staring modestly down at the grass when speakers praised him, was Dr. Luther Wesley Smith, 56, executive secretary of the American Baptist Assembly. Dr. Smith had many occasions to avert his eyes, for in last week's celebration the Baptists at Green Lake were honoring...
...when Massachusetts-born Dr. Smith was chief of education (63 schools, colleges and seminaries) and publications for the American Baptists, he found Sunday-school enrollments sadly sagging. He discovered that the three denominations staging the strongest Sunday-school comeback (Southern Baptist. Presbyterian and Methodist) all had summer assemblies at which youth leaders and ministers could meet. Deciding that his own denomination should have one as well, he spent two years scouring Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana for the proper setting. What he found was the 1,100-acre estate of Victor F. Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, converted...
...outdoor exhibit is part of the museum's summer show, "Sculpture of the 20th Century" (TIME, Oct. 27), which also includes (indoors) such outstanding pieces as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, poised in mid-stride with arm upraised in beckoning command; a voluptuous Matisse nude and a light-as-air Degas dancer; less representational studies like Constantin Brancusi's shining, vertical Bird in Space and his monolithic marble Fish, which for all its solidity conveys a feeling of watery motion. The high quality of the show has helped keep the ticket-takers near the big glass...
...what the award said, presented by the Emory University Town & Country School to the Egypt Methodist Church, which won out over 1,329 competing churches in 13 states. Until last year, Egypt Methodist had only 14 members. They had no building of their own, but met with the Baptists (membership 43) and listened to Baptist preachers. Then the Methodists got two more members. Galvanized by this shot in the arm, they set out to get a preacher of their own and a church...