Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Dodds, the Angel Gabriel, sings his role with the purity of a Russell Oberlin. As Simeon, the prophet, Robert Patterson is forcefully apocalyptic; and as Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, Jenneke Barton is magnificently, overwhelmingly maternal...
...CHRISTIAN ANTI-COMMUNISM CRUSADE, led by Dr. Fred Schwarz, 48, a genial, Australian-born physician and onetime Baptist lay preacher. Schwarz began his crusade in 1953, has become one of the principal figures of the rightist revival. Better read and less inflammatory than most of his counterparts, he avows it his purpose "fundamentally to inform, to teach, to educate" about Communism. He has drawn crowds of up to 15,000 in cities across the U.S., persuaded 41 mayors of California towns to declare an antiCommunism week, plans to invade New York City next July in "the biggest thing they...
...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...Mister Sam lay in a bronze casket under a mantle of deep red roses. "Whatever was great and noble in his life shall abide forever," said the Rev. Bernard Braskamp, chaplain of the House. "We are not saying farewell, only good night." Elder H. G. Ball, the Primitive Baptist Church pastor who had baptized Sam Rayburn just five years ago, intoned the eulogy. Then, while the organ played America, the Beautiful, six of Mister Sam's lifelong friends carried him away...
Unfortunately, the author's remarks on agricultural inefficiency are not matched with an equally good chapter on industry but then this is outside of his field. On the other hand, he delves into several matters totally ignored by the writers. One such subject is the Baptist Church, now claiming some three million worshippers (the Orthodox Patriarchate estimates its own (membership) at between twenty-five and thirty million). According to Hindus, the Baptist faith has divested its followers of all the brutality indigenous to the old Russian peasantry and made of them the most temperate among men. Hindus explains this phenomenon...