Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-shelled, bone-picking mood last week were 6,000 delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Oklahoma City, Okla. In a "pronouncement on religious liberty," the Convention protested against: 1) Roosevelt's sending Joseph P. Kennedy as his personal representative to the coronation of Pope Pius XII; 2) adjourning Congress at the death of Pius XI; 3) "the employment of any of the branches of our national defense in connection with religious services."* Three Southern Senators signed the protest: North Carolina's Bailey, Georgia's George, Kentucky's Logan...
...Baptists throughout the world, apprised of the plight of their Rumanian coreligionists, raised a mighty squawk. Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, went to Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...
Last week William Lyon Phelps's Autobiography told the whole amazing story, from his happy, athletic childhood as a New Haven Baptist preacher's son to the latest Yale football team-a personal history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant, discursive volume, it reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences...
...Pedro Bay, California (whither he was transferred last January), the nation's most notorious criminal attends Roman Catholic Mass, confesses his sins regularly. But, like most prisoners, who will do anything to get out of their cells, he also attends Protestant and Christian Science services. Last month a Baptist minister thought he saw a chance for Al Capone's soul, and plucked it forthrightly. The Rev. Silas A. Thweatt (rhymes with "bleat") of San Pedro, detailed for a service at the prison for the first time, preached straight at the gangster. His text: . . . Died Abner as a fool...
...time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd did know, however, was that a prison rule forbade clergymen to talk publicly about such matters. When Baptist Thweatt's story got in the press last week, the Warden had his name stricken from the list of ministers eligible for service at the prison...