Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motto of an old-fashioned Sunday-school teacher, recalls A. V. Washburn of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, was: "You sit still while I instill." The modern version might be: "In God we trust that you'll adjust." Sunday schools still struggle, with varying success, to form religious people in a doggedly secular world, but the setting and philosophy are changing fast...
...Says Baptist Minister Curtis R. Nims of San Francisco's First Baptist Church: "My suggestion to our congregation if they wish to be formal is to call me 'Mister Nims' or, if they prefer, since many are from the South, 'Preacher Nims' or 'Brother Nims.' " Lutheran ministers are properly called "pastor" and, although some high-church Episcopalians prefer to be called "father," most agree with the verse written by Episcopalian Henry Lewis, chaplain at the University of Michigan's Medical Center...
Being a member of the board of trustees of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, I read with interest your report "Baptist Split." Under the picture of Dr. Elliott, there is the statement "A professor needs somewhere to stand." May I suggest a place? He might try standing firmly upon Christ, "the sure Foundation," and the Holy Bible...
...Ross EDWARDS Swope Park Baptist Church Kansas City...
...Purpose. Genesco was stitched together by Chairman Walton Maxey Jarman, 58, an introspective Baptist deacon whose favorite pastime is rereading the works of Thomas Mann. Impatient with the faults of others, Jarman also harbors a nagging concern that he may not understand himself, once took a battery of company psychological tests under an assumed name. The psychologists' verdict: Jarman was too shy and self-conscious ever to deal successfully with people, and would be a failure in management...