Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis' big Municipal Auditorium Convention Hall during the fortnight gathered the Southern Baptist Convention, the Northern Baptist Convention and, for the second time since 1845, joint "Fellowship Meetings...
...Southern Baptists occupied themselves mainly with reports and resolutions. They were pleased to learn that, claiming 4,389,417 enrolled members last year, they were still ahead of the Methodists as the nation's largest non-Catholic body. Contributions to all Southern Baptist work aggregated $26,888,567, an increase of 10% over the year before. Baptist ministerial training was not in such good shape. Last available statistics showed that 64% of Southern Baptist ministers had neither college nor seminary training; only 14% had both. In two nations Baptist mission aries had had their troubles: 1) in Italy where...
...years ago of Rhode Island, the anniversary of which Baptists are currently celebrating in the conviction that this pioneer in religious freedom was their spiritual ancestor. Northern Baptists. During the widespread U. S. religious ferment of a century ago, the Church of Disciples of Christ (Campbellites) was formed by a onetime Baptist named Alexander Campbell, who rejected most Baptist tenets except baptism by immersion. Last week another Campbell - Rev. George A. of St. Louis' Union Avenue Christian Church - appeared before the Northern Baptist Convention with a plea for merger on the ground that theological differences between the two churches...
Union's faculty, all but one of whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps...
...companies have been rushing in men and equipment, changing the small town of Rodessa from a sleepy whistle-stop to a booming paradise for real estate swappers. A townsite lot in Rodessa lately sold for $30,000 cash. Population has climbed from 135 to 4,000. Baptist Preacher John W. Wynn of Shreveport came out of retirement to minister to Rodessa's needs, says he has worn out three cars burying and marrying people and has "struck it rich...