Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said they. They formed a Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, backed largely by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer -President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. (industrial specialists), a Brown graduate (1900), minister's son, onetime Baptist deacon and Bible class teacher. Year ago Engineer Scott went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will be submitted...
...often kneel in prayer or partake of communion. Washington's reputation, like that of such Deists as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, is one of coolness and moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington one day went to Rev. John Gano, chaplain in the Continental Army, and exclaimed: "I have been investigating the Scripture, and I believe immersion to be baptism taught in the Word of God, and I demand it at your hands. I do not wish any parade made...
Many a family has given its name to a U. S. educational institution, but few families own one. Brenau College (founded in 1878 as the Georgia Baptist Seminary, in Gainesville) was owned by Haywood Jefferson Pearce from 1913 until 1928 when, its endowment completed, it was turned over to a board of trustees. Culver Military Academy was relinquished by the Culver family last June, made a trust foundation. Last week Hollins College in Roanoke, Va. likewise was set free...
...proved invaluable to Detective Dart who seated himself in Frimbo's parlor and proceeded to examine suspects: the undertaker; the undertaker's wife ; a Negro porter named Easley Jones; a dope fiend; a "numbers" runner; two light-hearted Negro bucks named Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins; a gaunt female Baptist...
...Christian group banned Sunday funerals, but not with the purpose of depriving any one of Sunday pleasures. For three years the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, Neb. has worked for a city ordinance prohibiting Sunday funerals. The Lincoln City Council unanimously approved an ordinance drafted by Methodist Rev. Walter Aitken, Baptist Rev. C. H. Walcott, and G. T. Slavery of the United Brethren. Lincoln ministers feel they are busy enough with Sunday services, baptisms, christenings, church-meetings, vespers, Sunday schools, Bible classes. The ordinance takes effect next week...