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Fifth largest religious group in the U. S. are the Negro Baptists. Four years ago their adult membership was 2,914,482.* Largest Protestant church in the world is Chicago's Olivet Baptist church, membership 12,000. Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival...
...longed for shirts with sleeves instead of the sacklike garments slipped over his head. Then too a sideshow was tempting the Wiegman family with money for the boy's services as a "freak." He was ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms at the shoulders and then progressed to a county judgeship...
...Harvard is an autocracy", says Dr. J. E. Kirkpatrick, Professor of History at Olivet College, and former member of the University tutorial staff, but he hastens to add, "As an autocracy it is excellent, intelligent, honest, efficient, sensitive, and responsive, a superior sort of government. If all autocracies could be administered as well as this has been for the past half century, no democracy would have much chance to rise in the world...
...sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows...
...concluded their annual conference at Milwaukee (TIME, June 9), by compromising on the war issue.* A resolution was introduced declaring that the Baptist Churches would not support War. It was rejected in favor of the usual resolution that War is undesirable. Colored Members. Dr. L. K. Williams, pastor -of Olivet Baptist Church of Chicago, "largest Protestant Church in the world," spoke on "Colored Baptists of America." Said he: "In 1865 there were about 400,000 Baptists of color. . . . They rallied to it (The Baptist Church) in larger numbers than to all other churches combined and more than they...