Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson last month told 200 Southern Baptist leaders, "There is no Southern or Northern problem, only an American problem, when it comes to the rights of citizens. The only lasting solution won't cost a cent-but it will be the hardest to achieve." He then said this would require a change in men's hearts-in the way they see and treat their neighbors. No other white leader's remarks and few colored spokesmen have isolated and described so well the deep and festering wound responsible for the outbreaks-namely, the long-ingrained conviction...
Michael to Martin. Born Jan. 15, 1929, in a middle-class Georgia family active for two generations in the civil rights cause, he was the second child and first-born son, named after his father, Michael Luther King. The elder King, pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, changed both their names when Martin was five to honor the Reformation rebel who nailed his independent declaration to the Castle Church...
Honeywell Hymns. Other faiths are also satisfied computer customers. The Methodist Church utilizes electronic data processing to keep tabs on its 37,600 U.S. parishes. This spring the Southern Baptist Convention plans to install a Honeywell 1200 computer in its Nashville headquarters. Among other chores, the machine will help design a new Sunday-school curriculum -including hymns-to be offered the Convention's 34,000 churches. Eventually, a Sunday-school superintendent will send in a questionnaire giving a profile of his students-and back will come a customized curriculum tailored to his church's individual needs...
Died. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller, 68 Baptist minister and dean of Harvard Divinity School since 1959; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Miller believed that "religion which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit...
Died Dr. Charles E. Fuller, 80, Baptist minister turned radio evangelist whose sermons reached 10 million weekly in the 1940s; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. "If you are not in Jesus Christ, you are a child ot Sa-tan!" cried Fuller on his Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and at the peak of his career the message was beamed out every Sunday on 900 stations across the U.S. Though his popularity faded in recent years, he could still be heard on some 500 stations, many of which will continue to broadcast his sermons on tape...