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Politics was not the only problem that ever bothered Larry Adler. For a long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...
...Harvard, became convinced that the Baptist position on infant baptism was sound, he felt that he had drifted so far from Puritan orthodoxy there was only one thing to do: resign. He would have been pleased at last week's announcement of a new dean for Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller will be the first Baptist dean in its 147-year history...
...churches in Belmar, Arlington and Clifton, N.J. before becoming minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 1933. In 1955, during Harvard Divinity's $5,000,000 renaissance, Pastor Miller became Professor Miller-lecturing on pastoral theology at Harvard and the philosophy of religion at Andover-Newton Theological School...
...author of four books, including The Life of the Soul, The Life of the Church, The Great Realities, Dr. Miller has also taught a course at the Divinity School on the novels of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus and Graham Greene. His other major interest, surprising for a Baptist, is liturgy. Said he last week: "I believe the act of worship is the church's most distinctive contribution to society. There is no other source of power which will enable society to achieve any sort of unity...
Rejecters Rejected. To Sunday-school boys, Samaritan is a name synonymous with "good." But to the Jews of Jesus' day, Samaritans were a despised people. In the 8th century B.C. the Samaritan kingdom was called Israel. When the Assyrians "swept down like a wolf on the fold," they carried off most of the Israelites, leaving behind a destitute few who eventually intermarried with the invaders. Two centuries later, the Persian Cyrus freed the Jews of Jerusalem and returned them to their homeland; the Samaritans offered to help rebuild the temple, but were coldly rebuffed...