Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal...
...last week the able news service run by the National Conference of Jews & Christians proudly released a survey recording that 34 Protestant ministers hold seats in 21 State Legislatures. In addition, U. S. Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man'') Bilbo of Mississippi is a licensed Baptist lay preacher in good standing and U. S. Representative Herbert Seely Bigelow of Ohio is pastor of Cincinnati's People's Church. Secretary of State of Iowa is Dr. Robert Enlow O'Brian, Methodist minister and onetime president of Morningside College in Sioux City. Currently many a New Jersey Republican...
Driven by his chauffeur, accompanied at times by two other women and a 70-year-old named "Smitty" who called himself "St. John the Baptist," they toured around in a big automobile. Hotels accepted them as "St. John the Baptist & party of five," one room clerk noting on his register "a religious party on tour." "St. John the Revelator" introduced Miss Jewett to such Divine beliefs as that the Father could send a "vibration" from Harlem to Denver. Wrote she last week: "I felt a sudden chill. Everyone was pleased. They told me, 'that is Father Divine sending...
...last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly sent checks totaling $63,000 to the First Methodist Church, the First Presbyterian Church, the First Baptist Church, the United Brethren Church and St. Luke's Episcopal Church...
Last week the Allied Dental Council moved its headquarters from grubby lower Manhattan near Cooper Union to prosperous West 57th Street near Calvary Baptist Church. For the star attraction of their dedication program they invited non-Jewish Dr. Victor Hugo Sears to give them his first formal explanation of a new kind of false teeth...