Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parishioners of Harlem's Fountain Springs Baptist Church invoked an older response to drought. Three times a day, their pastor instructed them, they were all to pray for rain. A less idealistic proposal was offered by Congressman William F. Ryan, a candidate for the Democratic mayoral nomination, who says Wagner should fire his Water Supply Commissioner for not fixing leaks in water mains. Just for emphasis, Ryan rolled up his pants and waded through one gusher in Central Park−he even drank some of the water−but the department said it was nature's water...
...I.C.C.C. insists, the talking has produced admirable results. According to its own count, 8,000,000 people from 51 countries have aligned with the I.C.C.C. against the World Council and ecumenism. The U.S. adherents number about 3,000,000, most of them belonging to Presbyterian and Baptist churches. European followers are far less numerous; the biggest group is the 65,000-member Christian Reformed Church, which draws support from the sobersided Dutch farmers and fishermen of the Zeeland Province...
...against the Negro, then he also discriminated against the rich and females and children who are not orphans. If it is discriminatory for a man to will his money to an orphanage for poor, white male orphans, is it not also discriminatory if a man wills money to a Baptist church or to a Catholic missionary? Is it discriminatory for a man to create through his will a medical scholarship for the Navajo Indians...
...about her rich contralto: it came out just fine. To save her the wear of traveling to studios on the East or West coasts, Columbia Records hauled some special tape equipment to Chicago. And there last week in the choir loft of the South Side's Greater Salem Baptist Church, where she began her singing career more than 30 years ago, Mahalia rolled vibrantly through Never Turn Back, We've Come a Mighty Long Way, and eleven other resounding gospels. "I don't think I can take it like I used to," sorrowed Mahalia...
Recently, a "Clergymen's Emergency Committee for Vietnam," representing 3,000 Protestant, Jewish and Roman Catholic clerics, sent twelve of its members on a "ministry of reconciliation" to Viet Nam. Among the delegates were Unitarian Universalist President Dana McLean Greeley; Baptist Minister Edwin T. Dahlberg, a former president of the National Council of Churches; and the Rev. Harold Bosley, pastor of Manhattan's Christ Methodist Church. On returning, the clerics proposed an immediate peace conference, including both Communist China and the National Liberation Front (meaning the Viet Cong...