Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real woman has fared none too well in politics lately. A red-polled, 32-year-old Baptist last week headed Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas back toward the cows and chickens whence she emerged two years ago to "vindicate" her impeached husband Jim. Attorney-General Dan Moody won the Democratic primary with well over 50% of the votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound...
Down in the Texas Baptist belt, where Fundamentalism flourishes under the humid (often illiterate) phrases and hot war-whoops of a revivalist-Genesis-trumpeter, Rev. J. Frank Norris, the prevailing belief among the brethren is that whatever Baptist Norris does is done for the Lord, and is by Him blessed. Last week Rev. J. Frank Norris killed...
Then again, in No-Ape Tennessee, Heretic John T. Scopes hearkened to alarming cries of Gospel-Truth Norris, winced under the hyperorthodoxy of the Baptist tsar from Texas. Mr. Chipps, according to Dr. Norris and his disciple, L. H. Nutt, refused to leave the parson's premises...
...Baptist Norris with prodigious ire blasted the Modernists some time ago with a sentence, in scareheads on his Fundamentalist-Baptist Searchlight: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased...
Ecclesiastic Norris has confidence. His minions have gathered about their shepherd in mesmerized faith. The Sabbath following the murder or manslaughter, he preached to a great audience in the warm First Baptist Church of Fort Worth. He walked uprightly at liberty under a $10,000-bond profferred by his congregation. As the disciples sweltered within the House of God, 700 voices sent hymn upon hymn ("There is Power in the Blood," "Shall we Gather at the River," "Standing on the Promises of God") reverberating to the roof, while two pianos, psychologically caressed by relaying pianists, furnished additional emotion...