Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard the boy's story: He had sold papers on Chicago's South Side, bell-hopped at the Chicago Beach Hotel, sung in the Olivet Baptist Church choir. Mrs, Blackstone invited her butler's boy to lunch with her. There arose an argument as to whether he should go to the front door or around by the back as he had done the countless times he had gone to see his father. His mother telephoned the housekeeper. He used the front...
Donatello's St. John the Baptist embodies the spiritual intensity of his other versions of this subject. This Tuscan boy reveals in its ascetic beauty the religious fervor and the introspective side of the Renaissance character. This expression of thought and the splendidly structural modelling of the head make this a worthy example of the master's work...
Willie Johnson, 18, got Ruby Crook, 17, in trouble. The Crooks, finding Ruby pregnant, sent her away, promised "to take care of the Johnsons." While the rest of the community was attending services at the New Salem Baptist Church, on the border of Clay and Laurel Counties, the families met in the church yard. The Crooks "took care" of three Johnsons. The Johnsons "took care" of two Crooks. Willie Johnson survived with a slug...
...Jones. He was born 62 years ago in Kentucky, went to the University of Kentucky where he later taught Mathematics, Military Science. A man of parts, he became a lawyer, an ardent Mason, went to Los Angeles whose climate he now praises incessantly. He helped organize Los Angeles' Temple Baptist Church, has been president of nearly every important Baptist body on the Pacific Coast, is probably the tallest president the Northern Baptist Convention has ever...
Smaller is his Southern Brother. Dr. William Joseph McGlothlin, 64, is president of Furman University (Baptist, Greenville, S. C.) whose enrollment has more than doubled since he took the post in 1919. Poised, scholarly, a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, Dr. McGlothlin can give his hearers rich metaphor, did so in New York: "How can we break through the fog which dulls our vision? How can we kindle the blaze of spiritual power which will enable us to overcome the material age in which we live? The answer is that no one can bring peace and happiness back...