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...Italo-American on the Supreme Court. We've never had a Greek American." Last week at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in Manhattan, McGovern pointed up his problem with ethnics to his largely Catholic audience: "I feel a little like Al Smith addressing the Baptist league of Eastern Texas...
...seven-man faculty of San Francisco Baptist Theological Seminary was disturbed last spring when its president, Arno Weniger, suddenly cut off all paychecks, pleading lack of funds. Weniger was annoyed when five of the teachers took legal steps to recover $10,695 in back pay. After all, he argued, their yearly contracts of $7,200 were precisely qualified with the stipulation that "payment shall be as the Lord provides." The simple fact was, he told a hearing by the state labor commissioner, that the Lord...
...Portuguese responded to the uprising with bombs and machine guns. They bombed and strafed much of the countryside, including areas unaffected by the rebellion. In the words of one Baptist missionary. "The savagery of the Portuguese reaction kicked and scattered the fire until the whole of the North was ablaze...
Maddox's political visibility has given him "more opportunities to reach people about God," but he has been at his "witnessing" activities far longer than he has been a politician. Born into a Southern Baptist family 56 years ago, he recalls that "I gave my life to the Lord in 1932." He has been an active member of the North Atlanta Baptist Church ever since, sometimes as a Sunday-school teacher or the host (at the Pickrick) of the Christian Businessmen's Association...
...speaks each year to more than 100 religious gatherings, for which he takes no fee, only expenses. He has appeared at Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, but his messages seem most at home in Baptist independents like the Kelview Heights Baptist Church in Midland, Texas, where he spoke last week...