Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Harrison, a Baptist who occasionally preaches at G.I. services, is a man given to solitary prayer and meditation. Born in the District of Columbia 56 years ago, he is a direct descendant of President William Henry Harrison. A class of '17 West Pointer,* he was an assistant division commander in World War II and was wounded in France. Now deputy commander of the Eighth Army, he joined Admiral Joy's truce team last January, and was Joy's own choice for his successor...
...Southern Baptist Convention held the largest annual meeting in its 107-year history last week. Besides 11,063 "Messengers" (the official title of Convention delegates), an extra 10,000 out-of-town guests and spectators tried to squeeze into the daily sessions at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium,* where the Messengers approved the well-prepared resolutions of the Convention's 43 reporting committees...
After re-electing President Grey for his second one-year term, the Messengers discussed the problems of making new converts-especially in the North and West. The U.S. as a whole, said Dr. W. A. Criswell, pastor of Dallas' First Baptist Church, is "a vast, lost, pagan mission field." Out of 1,400,000 school children in New England, he reported, "1,100,000 of them are growing up without any religious instruction whatsoever. In the West the story is the same . . . This is a call to arms among our Southern Baptist people...
...Father Kernan, it was the second big step in his life in his search for religious certainty. He was brought up a Baptist, but turned to the Episcopal Church in college days (Yale '23) because he was distressed at the latitude of belief among Northern Baptists. But over the years, Father Kernan's satisfaction with the Episcopal communion began to wear thin. He wanted to speak for his church on such matters as birth control (which he opposes) and the invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either...
Since Harry Emerson Fosdick's days as minister, the congregation of Manhattan's Riverside Church has proudly represented a "Christian unity in miniature inside the Church." The 3,447 members include almost every variety of Christian background, from Presbyterian to Greek Orthodox. The largest single group, the Baptists, account for only 20% of the total. Last week Riverside's congregation voted to push their Christian unity further forward. Without sacrificing their official affiliation with the American Baptist Convention, they applied for membership in New York's Congregational Church Association...