Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left 450 jobless, Miner Orville Gibson, 44, stays behind because he cannot afford to move his ten children. Hoping to find work in one of the smaller mines still operating, Gibson meanwhile feeds his family U.S. surplus rice, flour and cornmeal, gets clothes and shoes from the Baptist Church...
...Federated Theological Faculty. The younger Barth denounced U.S. Sunday schools for shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God loves me. This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development of the child...
...times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital for a few days and four pints of blood. But by various devices, such as always doing her homework in bed, Marclan saves enough energy to play the piano, teach in her father's Baptist Sunday school, and carry on light campus activities. It has already taken more than 250 pints of blood to keep Marclan Walker up to this pitch of near-normal activity...
...Nova Scotia farmer from the herring-heavy shores of Pugwash (pop. 950), Eaton first thought of entering the ministry but soon changed his mind after a visit to his uncle, who was pastor of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. One of the parishioners was Standard Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who gave the 17-year-old youth a job as a clerk on his estate outside Cleveland...
Among the Amuesha Indians, who live near the jungle-bound foothills of the Peruvian Andes, a respected teacher does not get a tribute of apples; she gets worms. Brown-haired, 33-year-old Martha Duff, a Baptist missionary, linguist vacationing at her home in Oral, Tenn. after five years of teaching the Amueshas, recalls: "We were sitting around a fire when several little boys came in. They had found some big fat worms and were about to get into a fight over them. Their mother took over; the worms were put on sticks and left long enough over a fire...