Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...
Resolutions to appoint the Anti-Saloon League as an official agency of the Baptist Church and to appropriate $10,000 for Prohibition enforcement, were lost by wide margins. Other resolutions approved the League's work, flayed the U. S. Senate committee which last summer publicly investigated the League's books...
Elections. W. C. Coleman, wealthy lamp man of Wichita, Kan., was elected convention president for next year. Detroit was named 1928 convention city. The Rev. C. A. Brooks of Chicago was elected president of the American Baptist Foreign Society (missions), 1,585 'votes to 458 over J. Dabney Day of Los Angeles, fundamentalist candidate...
...First Baptist Church Beaufort...
Professor K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology will debate the Reverend Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, on the general subject "Evolution", on the evenings of May 13 and 14, at Dr. Straton's church. Professor Mather was the chief defense witness in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Tenn essee...