Word: memberbership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinctive thing about Pastor Wimbish's sermons and those of past Calvary pastors is that they are stoutly fundamentalist in a city generally associated with religious liberalism. The 107-year-old church is one of the oldest Baptist congregations in New York (present memberbership: 1,500). But Calvary members regard most Northern Baptists as modernists, and keep up strong ties with the Southern Baptist Convention. In 1931, two years after Evangelist Straton's death, Calvary moved to a new church building on the ground floor of a $2,500,000 17-story building on Manhattan's busy...
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