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Just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati glow the red lights of Newport, Ky. (pop. 30,000), a venerable sin center and hardly a place where a reformer is likely to succeed. But last week a reformer was elected sheriff of Campbell County, which includes Newport. He is George Ratterman. 35, former Notre Dame and Cleveland Browns quarterback, now a television commentator for American Football League games...
...Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." These words of Jesus in John 3:5, apparently slamming heaven's door on all who have never been cleansed of original sin by baptism, have made perplexing problems for theologians through the centuries. As a loophole for adults who are pious but ignorant of the faith, such as savages and those who died before Christ, the Roman Catholic Church recognizes a "baptism of desire," and Protestant churches in general let the question rest upon the mercy...
This in effect will put an end to the institution of death, which dogma says is a consequence of original sin. Thus, Father Wilkin argues, original sin will obviously be wiped from the books along with death. And since the only sin the unbaptized infants have against their account is original sin, they will then be free to enter into heaven. Grownups have committed other sins, and in the Last Judgment they will be condemned to expiate them in purgatory or suffer for them forever in hell, but not so the babies. "The unbaptized infants go to heaven." writes Father...
...before 1,480 tuxedoed and begowned guests in Manhattan's Coliseum last week arose former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower-to deliver an ill-tempered rebuke to a 23-year-old girl. Ike was exercised about Peace Corps Member Margery Michelmore, who had committed the sin of writing accurately about the primitive conditions that she had seen in Nigeria and having her postcard fall into the hands of leftist Nigerian students.* There was, cried Eisenhower, "postcard evidence" that Peace Corpsmen "did not even know what an undeveloped country...
...fundamental distinguishing belief of Baptists is that baptism should be administered only to believers as a sign and symbol of their conversion-not as a means of grace, or cleansing from sin, or a setting apart, as with other forms of Christianity. The corollary to the Baptist tenet is that infants are too young to believe and therefore must not be baptized. Yet in an interview in the biweekly Lutheran Standard, official publication of the 2,300,000-member American Lutheran Church. Graham was quoted as saying: "I still have some personal problems in this matter of infant baptism...