Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's largest Negro church is the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging with more staid and sober white Baptist groups. Their kind of leader is the Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson, the grandfatherly ecclesiastical politician who last week in Detroit was overwhelmingly elected to his twelfth consecutive term as National Baptist president...
Mississippi-born Dr. Jackson was first elected to the presidency shortly after the National Baptists had amended their constitution to limit tenure of the presidency to four one-year terms. In 1957, there was much hollering and chair throwing at the church's annual meeting when Jackson declared the amendment illegal and won himself an extra term. Three years later, the anti-Jackson forces united behind the Rev. Gardner Taylor of Brooklyn, but his election to the presidency was eventually overturned by the church's board of directors after a court battle. After failing to unseat Jackson...
Selling pews was drummed out of most Protestant churches long ago; yet Gilead Baptist Church in Detroit recently inaugurated a $1.20 weekly payment by each member for the "space" he takes in church. Bazaars are under fire: the Rev. Eugene Carper, director of research and strategy for the Massachusetts Council of Churches, thinks that bazaar workers should do some thing more beneficial for the spiritual life of the church, like visiting the sick and the aged in hospitals. But in May the Congregational church in wealthy Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, held a rummage sale that raised $40,000 from donated...
Raising capital for building-as opposed to getting money for week-to-week operation-creates other controversies. Baptist Minister the Rev. Dale Ihrie of Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., financed his church by selling bonds to his congregation; they liked it because "they owe the money to themselves," and he liked it because many holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop...
Galbraith has been away a long time, so now he can look back wryly and serenely on the frugal farmers who grew a cornucopia of crops, on the old Baptist church where no collection plate was passed, on the chaste, sober citizens who were chaste and sober largely because sin was expensive. Penny pinching was a way of life. If Galbraith's politicking father ever earned the disapprobation of his fellow citizens, it was not because he bought votes, but because he might have got them cheaper...