Word: baptists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored guest at a Baptist Sunday service held in a large wooden hall crammed with more than 2,500 worshipers, most of them women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Baptist leaders explained politely: "It is not customary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day it will be filled with people listening to the Gospel...
...president for the coming year, the delegates elected Dr. Herbert Gezork, 58, onetime leader of the German Baptist Youth Movement who fled Germany in 1936 just before the Nazis closed in on him, is now president of Baptist-run Andover Newton Theological School. Delegates went on record against...
Sensation of the convention was a speech by a Southern Baptist. Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of the University Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, whose topic was the sorest subject in Northern Baptism -the "invasion" by Southern Baptists (membership: 8,956,756) of what the American Baptists (membership: 1,536,276) regard as their territory. The convention press was kept busy running off 3,000 copies of his speech, which sold at 10? each...
Boston University The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister, author, Montgomery...
...supposed. This week he and 27 other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...