Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Emerson Fosdick, of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, returned to his congregation on the Minnckahda. Like his good friend, Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin (see p. 36), he announced that he would vote for Herbert Clark Hoover, and added, "I shall not make my pulpit a political platform...
...Here's one for you?listen to this: Ashland Avenue Baptist, printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
...Baptists. Strictly interpreted, the statement of the "officially appointed agencies on temperance and law enforcement of the Northern Baptist Convention" was routine, coming from temperance and enforcement workers of the church. It asked all good Baptists to vote against Smith, for Hoover (TIME, Sept. 24). But no such statement has routine effect in a presidential campaign; such statements are read with avidity, especially by the 1,250,000 persons who are represented in the convention...
...days after the Ohio Methodists were Willebrandtized. the Northern Baptist Convention (representing about 1,250,000 souls) was told by its officials that all good Baptists are expected to vote against Smith, for Hoover...
Congratulations on exposing fake oath falsely attributed to Knights of Columbus. (I am a Baptist son of a Baptist minister.) TIME brings to the dark, bigoted Middle West facts other publications fail to print...