Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Southern churchmen get together with Northerners, they usually keep their eyes peeled for a tar baby. Last week at Atlanta's big, good-willing congress of the Baptist World Alliance, even the highest-minded Southerners felt sticky when, congregating in social groups, they were approached by a Negro who repeatedly exclaimed: "I am a Negro. I don't guess you want me around." The Negro, Dr. H. M. Smith of Chicago, thereupon telegraphed newspapers, declaring that "numerous racial signs" were displayed at the congress meeting place...
...signs designated the groups represented in the Alliance, including the two U. S. Negro bodies, National Baptist Convention and National Baptist Convention of America.* They were meant simply to make it easy for the Baptists to find their friends. But down came the signs, at the order of Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, goat-bearded British secretary of the Alliance, who said crisply, "Don't let's have any more nonsense about color." Not quite satisfied, a Negro editor from Nashville sounded the brass for the election of a "consecrated, learned, experienced black minister" as president of the Alliance...
There are 12,000,000 Baptists in the world, 10,000,000 of them in North America, where they are the largest Protestant sect. Last week 50,000 Baptists from 60 rations totally immersed Atlanta's hotels, boardinghouses, Baptist homes, tourist camps. These were '"messengers" from far-flung local churches which, never bound by anything Baptist conventions say or do, are the cornerstone of the Baptist faith. In its week of oldtime oratory and hymn-singing, the Atlanta congress was to hear much of the need for Baptist evangelism, for Baptist freedom of worship in a troubled world...
...Baptist Truett, 72, North Carolina-born, was made a preacher against his will at 19, when his church "voiced its conviction that God had called George W. Truett to the ministry," and more or less forcibly ordained him. Preacher Truett founded a high school-Georgia's Hiawassee, now a junior college-before he finished college himself, at 30. For 42 years he has been pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, which today has an enrollment of more than 6,000 and a $1,000,000 institutional plant. Dr. Truett has traveled the world over on Baptist business...
...orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball stadium, from which the Atlanta Crackers had retired for a week. He led off: "As Baptists from around the encircling globe are gathered in the beautiful, forward-looking and nobly hospitable city of Atlanta. . . ."Launching into a lengthy comparison between Baptist and Roman Catholic beliefs, he summed up his own by saying...