Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looking through the waters from the heights. Last week one such reported a body offshore. It was a big dead fish. A second reported another body. It was a dead seal. Her congregation last week abandoned hope of her living. Many have known her since she, a little Canadian Baptist girl of 17, ran away from home with the evangelistic troupe of Robert Semple.* That was 18 years ago. She became ordained in the Apostolic Church and evangelized on her own account so inspiredly that the June issue of the Bridal Call Foursquare Gospel, her personal magazine, ranks her with...
...Baptists from great city congregations, from lonely mountain missions and from comfortable smalltown pastorates, gathered in Washington last week for the Northern Baptist Convention. They gathered to state opinions that were burning within them and to ask questions that had been troubling their reins this long time. And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations...
Fundamentalism. A most elementary and powerful tenet of the Baptist faith insists that, to be received into the fold, an applicant must be completely immersed in holy water. Yet certain churches?most particularly the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Manhattan, pastored by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, attended and largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton...
...there was many an unmeasured invective hurled at Mr. Rockefeller personally. He was the bogeyman of the fundamentalists. The week before this convention the fundamentalists, unrestrained by any show of amity, had met, also in Washington, at the Baptist Bible Union of North America...
...enemy was Mammon incarnated for the moment's argument ?"capitalized with the wealth of Rockefeller coin and the aid of Marshall Field and others in order that Mammon may win the battle [for modernism]. . . . The establishment of Chicago University was the beginning of Rockefeller wealth to mammonize the Baptist Church." The works of these philanthropists were "the works of the Devil." So the flaying went...