Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green, once a Baptist lay preacher, here had his theology mixed. The Archangel who rebelled was Lucifer. Michael was the good Archangel who led the fight against Lucifer...
...Southern Baptists. In New Orleans met 6,000 members of the Southern Baptist Church whose enrollment in 1936 rose by nearly 100,000 to 4.482,315, whose income increased $2,000,000 to $29,188,687. The Southern Baptists passed the usual resolutions on liquor, armaments, etc., added newer ones suggesting that "surely 16 is young enough" for girls to marry, and condemning smoking for women, preachers and other church workers. Unscheduled, a 28-year-old minister of Anniston, Ala. named Rev. Charles R. Bell Jr. arose to cry: "We must face the real issues of life. ... I cannot adopt...
...Northern Baptists. Most famed president the Northern Baptist Convention ever elected was Charles Evans Hughes (1908). Last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall met 5,000 Northern Baptist dele gates under the presidency of Herbert B. Clark, president of the North Adams (Mass.) National Bank, director in a half-dozen New England firms. Big, bald Banker Clark traveled 45,000 miles during his year in office, acquired a new pulpit manner speaking in hundreds of churches. Member of a rich Berkshire family (his father gave his old pastor $25,000 when that man of God retired), Banker Clark...
Choice for President Clark's successor depended upon the perennial rivalry be tween Baptist liberals and Baptist Funda mentalists, and a Fundamentalist won this week. He was Rev. Earle Vaydor Pierce of Lake Harriet Church in Minneapolis, called a "co-operating Fundamentalist" , because he holds his noisy brethren in helps avoid open rows...
Rockefeller in his lifetime gave away no less than $530,000,000. The Baptist Church was the most consistent beneficiary, but the biggest sums went to the Rockefeller Foundation ($182,000,000), the General Education Board ($129,000,000), the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial ($73,000,000), the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research ($59,000,000) and the University of Chicago...