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Perhaps the most typically Baptist thing about Pastor Adams is that he does not conform to the Baptist pattern. And the pattern itself is changing...
...into cities; the tiny sects have been drying up, and old hellfire revivals are fewer and farther between in the highly organized world of Billy Graham, Oral Roberts and TV. Southern Baptism today is bigger, busier and a lot better than ever. For a case in point, there is Pastor Ted Adams and Richmond's First Baptist Church...
...First Baptist (founded in 1780) built itself a big $400,000 Georgian building, which covers most of a block on Monument Avenue. But in depressed 1935 the deacons were desperate. Interest payments on the building debt were barely being met, and the congregation had been without a regular pastor for 14 months...
They found him in Ohio. Pastor Adams of Toledo's thriving Ashland Avenue Baptist Church was a Northerner of Northerners, and more surprised to be getting their call than the Southerners were to be giving it to him. When he heard what they wanted, he immediately asked that his wife, Esther, sit in on the discussion. "The only argument that seemed to have any weight," Chairman Moore remembers, "was that the First Baptist Church of Richmond had great influence in the South. One of the committee members put it pretty bluntly: Baptists in the South, he said, suffered from...
...official of the National Council of Churches) graduated as Phi Beta Kappas from Ohio's Denison University, and Ted immediately enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, where his father had studied. His first call was to the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, and within a year 26-year-old Pastor Adams had married Esther Josephine Jillson, a small, energetic girl from Beaver Dam, Wis. Three years later, he moved to Toledo, where the delegation from Richmond found...