Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Baptist Church Elmira...
...Scotland's Baptist Union, assembling at Edinburgh, was debating a motion to raise the yearly minimum wage ($1,036 plus a house) of its ministers when a sturdy dockworker rose, announced that his salary was $3,360, and made a strong plea for the underpaid clergy. "That is well said," replied the Rev. John McBeath, assembly president, "but let me remind you that you canna tak the breeks off a Hielan' mon!" Nonetheless, the assembly voted a $140 increase...
...Carey Daniel, pastor of West Dallas' First Baptist Church and brother of Texas' Democratic Senator (and candidate for governor) Price Daniel, offered to turn his church buildings into an all-white school if integration should be forced upon Dallas' public schools. "While correcting the evil of integration," said Pastor Daniel, "we also plan to correct several other evils." Items in the proposed curriculum: condemnation of the United Nations and "oneworld ideology," presentation of evolution "as a damnable heresy and not as scientific fact...
...make it even more Calvinist than Bunyan himself. Tractarian scribes, trying to bring the Anglican Church closer to Roman Catholic practices, rewrote it to take out the Reformation sting. A Roman Catholic version appeared with the head of the Virgin Mary (the worship of whom was heresy to Baptist Bunyan) on the title page. Now Dr. Harding, a leader of the Jung school in the U.S., reinterprets the 278-year-old parable in terms of modern psychology...
...Chapel, was unanimously elected the first Negro president of the Oklahoma City Council of Churches. His is one of six Negro congregations among the council's 55 churches. Integration suffered a setback in Philadelphia, where the Rev. David E. Gregory. 40, resigned as pastor of the New Berean Baptist Church when his congregation refused to admit Negroes to membership...