Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please accept my thanks for the story on Southern Baptists [Nov. 26]. As a Southern Baptist layman, I am especially eager for Americans to have a factual account of how we stand as a denomination in this important area of our national life. The picture you present is precisely correct. We have come a long way and are still moving miraculously further toward the goal of acting like Christians about integration...
...Honorable Ambition. Seventy-five years ago, the Rev. Russell Herman Conwell, a Philadelphia Baptist minister, went about the nation delivering a popular speech in which he praised not only the virtues of hard work but its rewards as well. "To secure wealth is an honorable ambition," he intoned, "and is one greattest of a person's usefulness to others. Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!" Conwell repeated the speech before 6,000 audiences, earned $8,000,000 in fees...
Support from Moyers. Foy Valentine's message is getting across; there are currently branches of the commission in 14 Southern states. Valentine is a friend of Press Secretary Bill Moyers and says that Baptist Moyers is "just as interested in what we are trying to do as I am." Valentine observes that "whereas Southern Baptists, like most other denominations, have been prone to reflect the culture, there are encouraging signs that we are more interested in reflecting the mind of Christ regarding race and other moral issues. We are abandoning the culture which has had us very much...
While leading countless assaults against Birmingham's racial barriers, a Baptist preacher named Fred L. Shuttlesworth has suffered four bad beatings, had his home bombed, and been arrested 22 times for everything from speeding to parading without a permit. Shuttlesworth, 43, believes in fighting every case just as far as he can. His belligerence has already taken him to the U.S. Supreme Court eight times-which makes him the most litigious individual in the court's 176-year history...
...reversal of his 1963 conviction (90 days at hard labor) for parading without a permit in Birmingham. That reversal came from Alabama's own highest state court. Despite his latest victories, Litigant Shuttlesworth is not quite ready to retire. In Cincinnati, where he now runs a Baptist church, he is in a legal skirmish with some of his own parishioners, who charge him with usurping the church trustees' financial power. For all anyone knows, that fight may wind up in the Supreme Court...