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...Southern Baptist Convention, the wall of separation between church and state is almost as sacred as the infallibility of the Bible. For administrators of Southern Baptist colleges and hospitals, the ready availability of federal grants and loans is a tempting answer to the pressing need for expanded facilities. At the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist state conventions last month, federal aid was unquestionably the leading topic of debate-and the wide variety of conclusions reached by the "messengers" (delegates) measured the extent to which it has become a real problem for the nation's largest Protestant faith...
...Florida, the state convention cut its annual support for Stetson University from $270,000 to $150,000, and seriously debated whether to cut off all funds for the Baptist school. Stetson's offense was accepting $845,000 in federal grants to construct a science building and add to its law school. By contrast, the Kentucky convention in effect authorized Baptist-backed schools in the state to accept federal loans if their administrators...
Other state Baptist conventions tried to define what forms of Government aid their institutions could accept without violating church principles. Arkansas and Louisiana rejected federal grants but ruled that loans were acceptable. The conventions of Texas and Georgia, after stormy debate, rejected even federal loans. The Arizona convention also rejected loans and grants, but ambiguously left church institutions free to accept certain Government payments "for services rendered...
...formal constitution for their long-discussed union. If, as expected, the constitution is ratified by the annual regional conferences of both churches, the United Methodist Church-amalgamating 10.3 million Methodists and 750,000 members of the E.U.B.-will come into being in the spring of 1968. (The Southern Baptist Convention, currently the nation's largest Protestant faith, has 10.8 million members...
...other hand, Pike is widely excoriated as a grandstanding publicist, a Unitarian in Episcopal robes, even an atheist in disguise. The Rev. Glen Braswell, executive secretary of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, fumes at Pike as "a prophet of the devil. He UPI is nonChristian, and as a theologian he is attempting to destroy the Christian faith...