Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago last week, the North Shore Baptist Church dedicated a novel new window. The design is simple enough-a small (6½ ft. high, 3½ ft. wide), bare cross with a single inscribed rosette on a plain background, done in soft rose, clear white, and a dozen shades of cool green. What makes it unique and arresting is that it consists of 446 pieces of beautifully cut and polished jade...
...North Shore Baptists owe their precious window to Baptist Millionaire James Lewis Kraft, 77-year-old founder of Kraft Foods, and an ardent lapidary in his spare time. Cheesemaker Kraft began collecting rare natural stones one day in the '20s when he was out driving and saw some people scrambling up a mountain. Told that they were "rockhounds" hunting for rarities, he joined the group, has been a rockhound ever since...
...knows how valuable Chicago's new window really is. Kraft guesses that the jade and labor that went into it, if ordered in the market, would have come to perhaps $1,500,000. But Baptist Kraft is not thinking about the value. Jade, he says, has a special place in a Christian church: "From the beginning of time, jade has symbolized truth, goodness and beauty...
Died. The Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, 74, tempestuous pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fort Worth (and, until 1951, of the Temple Baptist Church in Detroit as well); of a heart attack, at a Fundamentalist camp meeting; in Keystone Heights, Fla. In 1912, when the old First Baptist in Fort Worth burned down, Pastor Norris was indicted for arson. When he produced threatening letters to prove it was the work of his enemies, he was charged with perjury. A jury acquitted him on both charges, while his congregation filled the courtroom to sing The Old-Time Religion...
...offered to buy fellow officers' cars for 30% more than their value, and pay off in five months. Then he turned the cars into ready cash to invest in any likely venture (except the liquor and cigarette businesses and outright gambling; these were taboo, he said, under the Baptist principles he had been converted to while in flight training at Texas' Randolph Field in 1944). "I want to help humanity," he said. "Brazil is a country with very little money. With $500 you can't do much. But with...