Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Nixon made a quick foray into North Carolina, he was stirred by the enthusiastic reception he got (see Republicans). Kennedy's Roman Catholicism was obviously hurting him in Baptist country. And Johnson was not proving to be the Southern darling everyone was led to believe. Wrote Richmond News Leader Editor James Kilpatrick fortnight...
...authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again last spring during the West Virginia primary battle between Jack Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A scattering of clergymen have recently quoted it in sermons, and it has been printed in newsletters of Southern Baptist churches in Rainelle, W. Va., Phoenix, Ariz., Greensboro, N.C. and Knoxville, Tenn. One clergyman of the Nazarene Baptist Church, W. L. King, who quoted the oath and refused to retract when its fraud was pointed out to him, last week was charged with criminal libel in the magistrate's court...
Plague after Plague. Last week 254 physicians, 514 nurses and 1,352 other staff members of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center poured out of Jerusalem to the nearby village of Ein Karim, reputed birthplace of John the Baptist, to dedicate a $31 million building. U.S. Ambassador Ogden R. Reid, who has been learning the language, gave a slow, well-enunciated greeting in Hebrew. And everyone agreed, on the centenary of Henrietta Szold's birth, that medicine has come a long way in Israel...
California's Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy dismisses the movement. "In the past there have been movements of this sort, but they never did the church any good." But Seventh Day Baptist Paul Henry, a lawyer of Fontana, Calif., speaks for many of the "spirit-filled" when he says: "It's only my guess, but I think it may be an outpouring just before the termination of this...
...crucify the prophets that rise periodically to liberate Israel. He struggles against God's call, but eventually he finds that he must surrender. And so his ministry begins, first in the preaching of love and forgiveness, then, after his baptism-by a wonderfully wild and frightening John the Baptist-in his stern proclamation that the end of the world is at hand...