Word: baptistisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...
...Baptists, whose membership verges on 10,000,000 baptized souls, achieved their greatest potency not so much by their religious beliefs alone as by founding countless welfare homes, over 90 colleges and universities. In Russia likewise, Baptists began to administer Baptist welfare, to build Baptist homes...
Last week, therefore, the Soviet Central Executive Committee passed two potent anti-Baptist laws. One law declared that "the activity of all religious units be confined to the exercise of religion, and be not permitted any economic or cultural work which exceeds the limits of their ministry to the spiritual needs of Soviet citizens." Forbidden, therefore, is all Baptist social welfare or recreation work; permitted is nothing but Sunday preaching, hymn-singing...
...other law reads: "The houses of prayer and other religious property and the clergy shall minister to the believers of the locality adjoining the said buildings [i. e., to only one congregation]. Thus are Baptist activities among the Soviets split up, isolated, weakened...
This first major outbreak of the Forum since its divorce from the Baptist Social Union was very self-conscious over the dangers of being too serious about its program of reform. "We are often too serious" said the editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion...