Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy rain had fallen during the night, but Sunday dawned crisp and clear for the dedication of the new brick Christian Union Baptist Church on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss. Nearly 400 people were on hand for the ceremony, which was a landmark in the religious history of the South. Christian Union, a Negro church set afire by white extremists last July, was rebuilt with the help of an interracial group of Mississippians who call themselves the Committee of Concern...
Chairman is Dr. William P. Davis, white president of the state's Baptist seminary for Negroes. Visiting Christian Union, he thought, "This is the smoke of the burning Bibles, the sacrifice and prayers of poor people struggling for justice." As he stared at the charred remains, he repeated the words of Isaiah: "He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted ... to give unto them beauty for ashes...
...Your reference to Mr. Edgar Killen as a Free Will Baptist preacher is in error and casts a serious reflection on our denomination. Mr. Killen is not, and has never been a Free Will Baptist preacher...
...feet for Christmas, swore the junior Senator from Massachusetts. And out of New England Baptist Hospital he stiffly strode with his wife Joan. In a bracing (20°) Boston breeze, Teddy Kennedy, 32, cracked brittle jokes ("I just happen to have with me a speech that I didn't get to make at the Democratic convention in West Springfield last June"), then carefully eased into a convertible for a rootin'-tootin' motorcade to the airport. A commercial jet took him to Miami, and the family Caroline on the last leg of his odyssey to his two children...
...denominational college, be it Catholic, Jewish, Methodist or Baptist, has the right to adhere to policies formulated by the denomination, boards of trustees, and administrators. If students are not mature enough to respect these policies and live under them, then I propose they seek an education elsewhere...