Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baptist, 14 bodies...
When I was a youth in Charmington, Misereri, it was the pleasure of the local legitimates to preach sermons. In fact there was not a preacher in Charmington who did not preach, nor a minister who did not minister. But they were all Methodists and I was a Baptist. So I heard few of their sermons, received few of their ministrations. Yet this did not send me to hell. I remained in Charmington in our little gray house in the best part of town and real evil books which my mother had bought for me, books like Old Testament Stories...
...their own Children's Church, coming to hear Rev. John W. Suter Jr. talk to them in simple and understandable terms about religion and ideals. Their service is nonsectarian, has the support of five churches working in the Washington Square district-First Presbyterian, Washington Square Methodist, Judson Memorial Baptist, Grace Church and Church of the Ascension...
Immersion. It became known that at the annual session of the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington, D. C. (May 25-30) a strenuous attempt will be made to define a Baptist Church as one composed of immersed persons. This would exclude Dr. Harry E. Fosdick's church, now abuilding (TIME, Feb. 22). Most Christians these days are baptized symbolically by a few drops of water. The Baptist Church advocates total im mersion of the convert in water, either in natural surroundings as in the River Jordan, or in a pool in a church...
...Damned Souls." Last week eleven young men and two young women, students at the Baptist co-educational University of Rochester (N. Y.) defied the heavens. There was, they had decided, no God. They were atheists. And it was important that the world know this. They publicly proclaimed themselves "damned souls," and waited for the heavens to fall. But the heavens fell not. Nor did the waters rise and the thunder rumble and the lightning strike them in their tracks. Not so much as a slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that...