Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HILLYER H. STRATON Pastor First Baptist Church Muncie...
...Washington, D. C. six years ago, Rev. Gose Zelder Brown of Mount Zion Baptist Church (Negro) mounted his pulpit, preached for three hours on Gambling, took a little nourishment, continued preaching on Dancing, Famine, Pestilence, Drought. He did not stop until he had preached 88,794 words in 12 hr., 10 min. Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley publicized Preacher Brown's achievement as an ecclesiastical record. It stood until last fortnight, when in the Negro Monumental Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, Dr. David Buyabuve Mdodana preached in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his pastorate...
Born in Idutywa, South Africa, David Mdodana was taken to the U. S. in his youth by Baptist missionaries. They sent him to several Negro universities-Shaw, Tuskegee, Hampton, Selma. He celebrated 25 years of work by donning a white satin robe stitched by women of his church, preaching 25 of his best sermons consecutively in 17 hours. Some of the sermons: The Prodigal Son, The Beam and the Mote, Be Still, Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands, Where Are We Spiritually, Educationally and Socially?, The Soul's Anchor, The Borrowed...
...Raney, he was a humble country schoolteacher. He did not get his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri until he was 31. Five years later, when he was an instructor at the State Normal School in Springfield, Mo., he was offered the presidency of debt-laden, Baptist Stephens and accepted immediately. Within ten years President Wood had not only doubled Stephens' enrollment and accumulated an endowment of $1,600,000 but made his college the talk of educators all over...
...Philadelphia last week the Northern Baptist Convention wound up its annual gathering (TIME, May 31) after paying its respects to its late benefactor, John D. Rockefeller (see p. 65), and declaring itself in favor of Government-fixed minimum wages, Government-limited incomes. Elsewhere African Methodists (Albany, N. Y.), United Lutherans (Manhattan), United Presbyterians (Chicago), Catho lic Daughters of America (Elmira, N. Y.), Knights of Columbus (Geneva, N. Y.), members of a Movement for World Christianity (Rochester, N. Y.), a Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (Nashville, Tenn.) deliberated, prayed, resolved. Most news worthy conventions of the week...