Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist minister, heard "a piece of good fun" last week. A preacheradmirer, living in New Jersey, "nominated" Dr. Straton to be President of the U. S. Said Dr. Straton: "If I were President, I'd try to get Henry Ford to serve in my Cabinet. He's a good Christian. If I were President, I'd call out the Army and Navy, yes, sir! and I'd close the dance halls, the sinks of iniquity, and I'd enforce Prohibition and all the other laws. If I were President, my first...
...Among Baptist ministers John Roach Straton and Harry Emerson Fosdick are antithetical-in training, personality and ways of thought. Dr. Straton's religion is absolute-his way or damnation; Dr. Fosdick's religion is expanding -it includes good things of the past as of the present. As professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary and pastor of Park Avenue Baptist ("Rockefeller's") Church, Dr. Fosdick has great influence on influential...
...feature of human service. Through the confessional they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls. A good priest, through the confessional, can develop a treatment for the individual and we have nothing to compare with it. For six years I have conducted-Baptist though I am-what I call a confessional. I am not afraid to recover things the Protestants threw away- beauty of service and the confessional. I have an office where people who know they are spiritually sick and mentally disturbed can come with their problems. Why shouldn't I minister...
...When the late James B. Duke's tobacco-built estate is administered Duke is to have 80 millions (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924). †Not to be contused with the militantly Fundamentalist denomination, Baptist...
Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...