Word: baptiste
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Died. Carl Elias Milliken, 83, somber Prohibitionist who served from 1917 to 1921 as Maine's first fulltime Governor (his predecessors rarely devoted more than a couple of days each month to the job), a onetime president of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society who later became secretary of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America and turned against the "pulpiteers" who attacked "improper" movies; of cancer; in Springfield, Mass...
...pretty princedom of Monaco, the center of Europe's playboy country, has now become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism. On a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year...
Courtesy A. Hitler. Assigned to set up a Protestant radio station, beamed at Europe and supported by U.S. funds, was the Rev. Paul E. Freed, 42, a Baptist minister who grew up in Syria and Palestine, where his father was a businessman turned missionary. "We started in Tangier on a shoestring," Freed recalls. "Our budget was around $25,000 a year. Today it's closer to $1,000,000-and it all comes from Protestant churches and other radio stations. Every major denomination is involved, and nowadays we get as much support from European Christian groups as from Americans...
Airway Communion. Baptist Freed, who has gathered his knowledge of Russian hearts and souls firsthand in three extended trips through the Soviet Union during the past five years, finds the Russian response heartening. Even in the depths of Siberia he found families who listened regularly to Trans World broadcasts. Appreciative letters arrive each week from the U.S.S.R. A recent sample: "Peace unto you, our dear friends. We give thanks to our Lord for the privilege he gives us of listening to the loving Word over the radio. We are Christians living here in Moscow. The reception is excellent. We take...
...ENGLISH BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT. A new English translation prepared and directed by representatives of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, The Church of England, The Church of Scotland, The Congretional Union of England and Wales, The Council of Churches for Wales, The London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, The Methodist Church of Great Britain, The Presbyterian Church of England, The United Council of Christian Churches and Religious Communions in Ireland, The British and Foreign Bible Society, and The National Bible Society of Scotland. New York, 1961, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press...