Word: northerner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spacious, air -conditioned Des Moines Veterans Auditorium was jammed with 3,000 convention delegates and 5,000 visitors last week, but the burnished-copper ashtrays stayed empty. The assembled 8,000 were American Baptists (Northern), on hand for their 52nd annual convention and, as one official explained: "Some Baptists smoke, but never when they gather together like this...
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...
Southern Baptists, Arkansas-born Dr. Smith pointed out, have 2,600 churches in areas which 20 years ago were looked upon as Northern's private preserve-mostly in the Midwest and the Southwest. And it is in just these areas that Southern Baptism has been growing fastest. "Although the overall gain in membership for Southern Baptists in 1958 was only 2.7%, our gains in the 'invaded' states were from five to ten times as large as the average...
Pastor Smith views the resulting friction as threatening "the unity of Baptists on this continent more seriously than the Civil War." And he blames the cold uncharity of Northern Baptists for the situation in the first place. The 800,000-odd Southern Baptists who have moved north, he said, have not felt that they were wanted in the churches where they have gone. "They are simple people to whom forms and ceremonies are as strange as a foreign tongue, but they love the Lord. Have you been willing to gather with them in their home or perhaps in a crude...
Respectful Hearing. Beginning his tour in San Francisco. Symington was taken tightly in tow by Roger Kent. Northern California chairman of the State Central Committee and a devoted Brown follower. After speaking at a Fairmont Hotel luncheon-an affair arranged and run by Brown followers-Symington whisked off to Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that...