Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried the fundamentalist-modernist war into the Baptist church. In accepting the pastorate of the Park Avenue church, Dr. Fosdick prescribed liberal terms of church membership. And although the church refused to force the issue with the central body of Baptists and hence failed to send delegates to the Northern Baptist convention now assembled in Washington; nevertheless the convention itself forced the issue. A proposal from the fundamentalists was introduced to define the term Baptist in such a way as to eliminate from membership in Baptist churches all but those received by immersion...
...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...
...courts, a billiard cabin, stables, two garages, a superintendent's house, a gardener's house, a greenhouse, a storehouse, cabins for 24 servants, two boathouses and a chicken house. There are also a fleet of boats and fishing for speckled and lake trout, black bass and great northern pike. The whole is situated a mile and a half from the Manhattan-Montreal highway, three miles from the railroad, 14 miles from Saranac, 20 miles from Lake Placid, 30 miles from Canada, 70 miles from Montreal and 370 miles from Manhattan...
...Railroad. Last week the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway prepared this table of their earnings for the past ten years, and let it speak hopefully to their 37,322 stockholders and ominously to political monkeys who would tamper with railroading...
...work has tended strongly to confirm the belief of the scientific world that Maya history saw a gradual shifting of population from the south to the north. Why magnificent southern cities like Copan in Northern Honduras and Tikal in Guatemala were abandoned is still a riddle. The exodus from them about 600 A. D. may have been caused by exhaustion of the soil or by epidemic or by some other danger yet unproved. But there seems no doubt that the Mayas did migrate gradually northward and that their cities in Northern Yucatan were the last ones they built...