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...laborers who come north to work the season for free transportation, shelter and an average of $35 a week. This year the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to do something about their souls as well as their bodies. With a team of 13 Latin American Baptists, marimba-playing Preacher Hernandez checked into Pecos' Lone Star Motel for a week-long Cottonpatch Crusade...
...nights, reading time and again Proverbs 27:12: "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished." After a year of inner turmoil, Joe slipped away one weekday and drove to the home of a Church of Christ minister in Carthage. "Preacher," said he, "I want you to baptize me." The ceremony was quickly performed...
Home & the River. The case concerned Emmett Louis Till, 14, who was sent by his mother, a Government office worker ($3,900 a year) in Chicago, on a family visit to her home town with her uncle, Mose Wright, 64, a sharecropper and sometime preacher. One day a cousin drove him and some other Negro youths to the nearby hamlet of Money (pop. 75) to buy 2? worth of bubble gum. On leaving, his friends later said, Till rolled his eyes and whistled lewdly at a white woman in the grocery, Mrs. Carolyn Bryant, 21. Later two white men took...
...Last week the executive committee of the new club met to plan its first dance. With the tentative name of TPM (Tuesday evening), the club plans to meet the third Tuesday of every month and to hold some kind of social activity between regular meetings. Says 45-year-old Preacher Davie: "The way they responded to the church relationship is wonderful and surprising. People resist so often when you try to give them a spiritual background-then suddenly here are 160 of them." The club's purpose: to provide a happy alternative to "getting a date or getting married...
...Dickens novel, the French Revolution, the paintings of Tintoretto, Ibsen's Wild Duck, the salaries of bishops. "Musical criticisms," wrote he, "like sermons, are of low average quality simply because they are never discussed or contradicted." What 20th century music needs, among other things, is more sermons like Preacher Shaw...