Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grady Lafayette Evers, 38, pious, T-total Baptist storekeeper of Dadeville and candidate for tax collector of Tallapoosa County, Ala. the morning of March 23, 1938, was exciting. A candidate for Governor of Alabama was to speak in Dadeville, and Storekeeper Evers had thought of a way to advance his own candidacy. He ordered for distribution to the crowd 2,500 booklets of paper matches from Advance Match & Printing Corp. in Chicago. On each booklet he ordered printed...
...TIME, May 23, the alert Editor of Religion gave a report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
...Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville...
...sharp-eyed correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune went through the list of candidates in the July 12 Oklahoma primaries and discovered what amounted to a trend. Mae West, an Oklahoma City housewife, is running for Commissioner of Charities and Correction. She has eight children, is a devoted Baptist, and entered the race only after she had prayed for a considerable time and consulted her pastor. The pastor is praying for her every...
Much as they love and respect other Christians, Baptists love more the saving grace of baptism, the freedom of worship without the ministrations of a priesthood. Baptists may well be the most sizable group of Christians who will not march toward world church unity with the World Council of Churches (see col. 2). Last week in Richmond. Va., 5,000 "messengers" (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention representing 5,000,000 Baptists in 18 States, applauded two frank statements of the Baptist position on unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder...