Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They took Hubert Rampley out and flogged him. They did not think he should keep company with Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Skidmore, who had not yet secured her divorce. The floggers, sentenced to seven months in jail, were five, deacons all of the Atkins Avenue Baptist Church, Cedar Grove...
Last week brought forth the first concrete lesson in Dr. Fosdick's idea of a church. He will accept the pastorate of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, on one major condition: it must be "inclusive." This general idea, translated into specific requirements, meant...
...That membership must be open to all who profess themselves Christians according to the so-called "evangelical" manner-i.e., Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian and the like...
...That rites or doctrines which distinguish Baptists from other evangelicals are not to be de rigueur. (Of these, the most picturesque is the Baptist belief that the body of a convert must be totally immersed in water-either running water such as the River Jordan or a pool constructed in the church. Most other churches from Catholic to Calvinist are content with symbolical sprinkling of water on the forehead...
...resignation of Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin as pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was announced to take effect Jan. 12, 1926. He has had a notable career of 40 years in the ministry. It was predicted that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick would be called to succeed...