Word: heth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago in Decatur, Tex., Joseph Fort Newton was brought up a Baptist. At Louisville's Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he rebelled against the dogma that there had been an unbroken line of Baptists from apostolic times to the present. The Seminary's president, Dr. William Heth Whitsitt also rebelled and was deemed a heretic. Student Newton spent one more year as a Baptist, then became an independent. In 1916 he was called to the famed City Temple ("Cathedral of Non-Conformity") in London. In three years he went through 28 air raids, preached many a forthright liberal...