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Dates: during 1926-1926
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President. The man chiefly responsible for bringing about this quasi trust (it will endure for at least the next six months) was Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher, the retiring pastor of the Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif. All last year he traveled about the country presenting his address "Play Ball." Baptists of all shades of doctrine grew to admire him, came to call him "the Baptist unifier," even though they disagreed with his efforts to reconcile the parties. Last week he was elected President of the Northern Baptists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baptists | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...There is no possible chance for a real Baptist to pussyfoot, or make a detour around the deity of Jesus Christ" said Reverend James W. Brougher, D.D. of California at the opening meeting this week of the Northern Baptist Convention at Washington. And thus again appears in public print one of those examples of poor taste so often a part of modern ecclesiasticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRORS IN THE INFIELD | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

...eternal fitness of things. This convention is about to make a compromise so that those who favor complete immersion and those who do not can continue in the same church without words of little wisdom and much bitterness. In the role of advocate for moderation and compromise Dr. Brougher has, in his category at least, a decent part to play. But when he uses such words he is reducing the action to that of farce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRORS IN THE INFIELD | 5/26/1926 | See Source »

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