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...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...
Happy eating and sweet dreaming to the students of the Functions of a Complex Variable and to professors of law who neglect to cross on the red and yellow. To doctors of philosophy perishing for failure to publish and to brethren perishing because they have published, to old men reading Plato, to seniors with black goatees and to juniors cultivating Harvard's air of indifference by nodding in class, we extend a glad word. A day of rare Thanksgiving to Nieman and Ford Fellows and other itinerant scholars, and a thought for the girls sitting sideways on the Memorial Church...
Changeover. Last week's TV drama indicated that the happiness boys were leading their more morose brethren by a score of about ten to one. Television Playhouse seemed to be making the changeover gradually: its Merry-Go-Round was about a grimly possessive girl who loses two men before she has enough sense to change her tactics to entrap a third. Studio One briefly dismayed its viewers with Reginald Rose's Three Empty Rooms which dealt with a pair of miserably shy newlyweds, but wound up strongly affirming the solidarity of the human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic...
...tasks and trials of this summer that . . . have brought us to a closer sympathy with our suffering brethren-we thank Thee...
...several recreation halls and offices, all within a few blocks of each other, north of East 100th Street. It serves a 21-block area containing some 30,000 people, most of them Puerto Ricans and Negroes. The project is supported by eight Protestant denominations (Baptist, Congregationalist, Evangelical United Brethren, Methodist, Mennonite, Presbyterian. Reformed Church. Evangelical and Reformed), is regularly served by seven young ministers (two are women) and a staff of ten workers...