Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little white chapel at Key West, Navy Chaplain Harold F. Menges, a Baptist, stepped forward to deliver his sermon. From I Corinthians 13:9 ("For we know in part, and we prophesy in part"), he led into a discussion of criticism. He condemned malicious and uninformed criticism, but added: "It's the wise man who can take and accept honest criticism and make good use of it." Listening raptly was Harry Truman, who has been subjected to infinite varieties of censure, and has done his share of censuring. After the service, the President grabbed the preacher's hand...
...life of Charles Francis Potter stands for religious liberalism carried about as far as it can go-if not farther. It also stands for a small but significant segment of U.S. religious history. Raised as a Fundamentalist and proceeding from the Baptist ministry through Unitarianism and Universalism to the founding of his own "new religion" of Humanism, Dr. Potter has managed to keep himself in & out of hot water and public print for a generation...
Fame & Flurries. The son of a Baptist minister, William Kilpatrick first began to be known after he joined the staff of Columbia University Teachers College back in 1907. But even before that time, he had already proved that he was a rebel at heart. As a grammar-school principal in Georgia, he had stirred up flurries of controversy by doing away with report cards and never punishing his pupils. Later, as a professor of mathematics at Georgia's Baptist Mercer University, he stirred up more controversy by admitting that he did not believe in the Virgin birth. After...
...Philadelphia, thousands of Republican voters helped elect the first Demo cratic mayor in 67 years. In a kind of deathbed repentance, the once-invincible Republican machine had nominated the Rev. Daniel Poling, a famed Baptist clergyman, for the mayoralty. He was decisively beaten by Joseph S. Clark Jr. Richardson Dilworth, spearhead of the Democratic uprising, who was defeated for mayor four years ago after a vigorous campaign, was elected district attorney...
...ever more creative patterns of social and spiritual responsibility." And "the American heritage is the Protestant heritage . . . Protestants came to America, settled America, made America after the likeness of their own ideal." Among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 34 were Episcopalians, 13 Congregationalists, six Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Quaker and one Roman Catholic. Before affixing his signature, each man bowed his head in prayer...