Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest Protestant denomination in the land (10,000,000 members) if their five bodies could only get together.* As it is, they are the most sectarian of sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical affinity." The Convention shelved...
Meantime in Cleveland the 151st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. got out the brown paper and string, showed itself ready & willing to make a neat bundle: itself, the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. (Southern) and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator...
...Southern trees bear a strange fruit...
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze...
Havard Man: "What is he trying to say?" Southern California Daily Trojan