Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the Baptist convention's decision to recommend to their people that "the Roman Catholic Church is both a religion and an ambitious political system aspiring to be a state...
...available by the Rockefellers. The National Council is pulling itself together from eight different locations in Manhattan to occupy four floors. Other large-scale tenants: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (more than three floors), the Methodist Church (three floors), the Reformed Church in America, and the American Baptist Convention (one floor each). The Protestant Episcopal Church is planning to put up its own office building elsewhere in the city...
...Baptist "Subversion." The importance of Science and Religion lies not in its contents but in its appearance at this late date after God's official demise in the U.S.S.R. And this is not the only evidence that religion in Russia is far from limited to dying-off old folks. Moscow's Izvestia is devoting column after indignant column to the "subversive"' doings of Russian Baptists-grown from 100,000 before the Revolution to about 500,000 today. Typical of Izvestia's reports from all over is a letter telling how one Lukeria Sevchuk was converted...
...near capacity crowd that alternately hissed, shouted, and applauded filled Emerson D last night for what the Harvard Eisenhower Club billed as "the debate of the century." The head of the Massachusetts Communist Party and an "evangelical Baptist" who is executive director of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade debated the question, "Resolved: That Communists should be expelled from our university faculties." Speaking for the affirmative, Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, a surgeon and psychiatrist from Sydney, Australia, limited his argument to "members of the Communist Party" and contended they should be excluded from faculties both for "their relationship toward truth...
...Said Baptist Miller: "One of the tragedies of our time is that the minister is both overworked and unemployed; overworked in a multitude of tasks that do not have the slightest connection with religion, and unemployed in the serious concerns and exacting labors of maintaining a disciplined spiritual life among mature men and women. It is a scandal of modern Protestantism that young men called to the high venture of the Christian way . . . are graduated into churches where the magnitude of their vocation is macerated . . . by the pressure of the petty practices of so-called parish progress...