Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baptist who lives in the North, I have only one question-why can't we hear the voice of the Baptists in Mississippi now that Governor Barnett and his crew are so blatantly trampling underfoot the principles of him of whom it was said: "He hath made of one blood all nations...
...print. BRIDE OF THREE WEEK'S BEATS ASS OFF HUSBAND went one typical Independent headline above a story telling how a young farm wife in neighboring Camden County had bravely rescued her husband from an aggressive jackass. Even the clergy was not immune from attack. After one Baptist preacher denounced him from the pulpit, Saunders discovered and published the fact that the preacher owned the only bawdyhouse in town. Another Independent editorial volley, aimed at an anti-Semitic evangelist named Mordecai Ham, blew down the revivalist's tent...
Near the charred remains of the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Sasser. Ga., which segregationist whites had burned to the ground. Temple University Student Prathia Hall, 22, led the all-Negro congregation in a worship vigil. "We may not be free in our lifetime," she prayed, "but O God, Lord in Heaven, we're going to be free...
...forgive their sin, and will heal their land." "Recreation & Renewal." Not all the prayers were offered for such solemn causes. In Atlanta's Morningside Presbyterian Church, Dr. Arthur Vann Gibson offered prayers of guidance for candidates in the Democratic primary. The sunburned congregation at Washington's Calvary Baptist Church bowed their heads to join in a post-summer oration: "We are thankful for the return of those who have been away enjoying days of recreation and renewal of body, mind and spirit." Prayer is mostly personal, and judging whether it is growing more common is an exercise...
...church but still devoted to purposes of religion is the new headquarters of the American Baptist Convention at Valley Forge. Pa., near Philadelphia. Here Architect Vincent G. Kling neatly resolved a problem that had been bothering the Baptists: they wanted a building to house five separate divisions of the church's operation, yet one in which no division would be given preferential space. The doughnut-shaped structure they got houses each of the five divisions in harmonious wedges within. The Baptist Convention's highly unconventional building, clearly visible near Interchange 24 of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, has created...