Word: baptistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will take the Baptist denomination a generation to recover from the brand of orthodoxy exercised by this notorious communicant...
...Communist world, in Hong Kong, 132 young Asians met last week in the warmth of Christian fellowship. It was the first Asia Baptist Youth Conference, held under the auspices of the Baptist World Alliance and the calm blue eyes of its president, Dr. Theodore Adams of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va. (TIME...
...think you would want me to be perfectly frank with you," said the doctor to the Rev. Benjamin Harrison Duncan, editor of the weekly Arkansas Baptist. That day, nearly a year ago, 66-year-old Baptist Duncan learned that he had leukemia (cancer of the white blood corpuscles) and perhaps had only a few months to live. In an editorial last week, Duncan told his readers how it feels for a minister to live under a death sentence...
...Death isn't a stranger to me, a Baptist minister for 46 years," he wrote. "I have prayed with scores of people in their last hours. I have turned from the deathbed to comfort hundreds of others . . . Death isn't a pleasant assignment . . . The question was hurled at me: Will my life in these few weeks bean example of what I have preached? Does death look different, now that it has come so near to me, than it looked when I was counseling with others? ... Is the counsel I gave to others adequate for myself now that...
...political rallies starting next month. Intermittently, he checked arrangements for the Republican National Convention; harking back to an impressive prayer he had heard in Harrisburg, Pa. during the 1952 campaign,* he personally selected the Rev. John B. Williams, mellifluous pastor of Harrisburg's big Negro Second Baptist Church, to deliver an invocation in San Francisco. Cheerfully he approved a tentative schedule that puts him (and Mamie) in San Francisco next Wednesday evening, calls for an acceptance speech on Thursday, and grants three or four days' vacation at posh Cypress Point on California's Monterey Peninsula...