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Most Northern Baptists sighed with relief when Pastor Norris took Detroit's large Temple Baptist Church out of the Northern Baptist Convention, which he accused of "communistic, unscriptural and socialistic leadership." But he became a perennial heckler at Southern Baptist conventions. Delegates, called "messengers," are allotted on the basis of one per 250 church members-or $250 donated to the convention fund...
This year, Pastor Norris sent the Southern Baptists his personal check for $250, got his credentials...
...reaction of those blessed was mixed. Pastor Melish was highly gratified by this "unsolicited" tribute. Albert Einstein refused to comment. In California, Bob Kenny tried to laugh it off. Said he: "I imagine Vishinsky is responsible for my inclusion. I saw him frequently at Lake Success and we remarked that we were both in the same business." In case anyone had forgotten Vishinsky's part in the huge Communist purges of the '303, Kenny explained: "Vishinsky is also a former prosecutor...
Author Miller, who was in charge of churches in London's dockland area in 1938 and who survived the blitz as a pastor in the thoroughly bombed borough of Stepney, has no hesitancy about putting his left foot forward. Unlike the Church of England's famed "Red" Dean of Canterbury, however, he is careful to put it down on the platform of Karl Marx's social theory, rather than on the pit-strewn ground of Stalinist Russia...
...Lutheran church in Budapest, Pastor Laszlo Benczur had heard and wondered about a "world church" and a world fellowship of Christians. When he learned that near Geneva there was something called an Ecumenical Institute, where Christians of all non-Roman denominations and nationalities met and studied together, he and his congregation decided that Pastor Benczur must attend. Last fortnight, at the closing session of the Institute's second three-month term, Pastor Benczur rose to speak to his fellow students. Said he: "I feel like the finger of an outstretched hand...