Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LEONARD HATCH Eastern Baptist College St. Davids...
Adam Clayton Powell, 49, Democratic Congressman from New York's Harlem district, pastor of Harlem's huge Abyssinian Baptist Church, threw his 1956 support to the national Republican ticket, stumped among his fellow Negroes on behalf of President Eisenhower. Already under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Powell landed in trouble with his own party for his political infidelity. But after Ike's victory, at least one of Powell's problems seemed to ease: the tax investigation bogged down...
Deeply religious, and a conscientious teetotaler, he is a twice-over tither; i.e., he gives 20% of his net earnings to the Baptist Church. During Evangelist Billy Graham's Manhattan crusade last year, Van sang in the Madison Square Garden choir alongside Ethel Waters. He once skipped a $500 concert date so that he could play for a church banquet in Paramus, NJ. Buffalo Philharmonic Conductor Josef Krips recalls the time that Van came into his dressing room before a performance and said, "Maestro, let us pray." Krips, a Roman Catholic, dropped to his knees with the pianist. Said...
...Methodist Bishops Charles W. Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist...
Members of the United Ministry to Students in Cambridge expressed general approval of the Corporation's decision to allow marriages of students of all faiths in Memorial Church. "All members were pleased to accept the decision," Rev. E. Spencer Parsons of Old Cambridge Baptist Church and chairman of the organization, said at a meeting yesterday...