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...Baptist churches. The same kinds of cars nuzzled the two churches on Sunday mornings and the same kinds of Godfearing Kansans sang and prayed inside. Why shouldn't the two become one flock? To Pastor Bach and the young Baptist preacher across the way, the 200-odd-sect division of Protestantism in the U.S. was "inherently wrong and sinful...
...brought prosperity. Neighbor vied with Mennonite neighbor for such worldly possessions as automobiles and radios. Children brought home new ideas. Old-line Mennonites shook their heads over marriages outside the fold, the trend away from the soil. Then, in World War II, 50% of the young Mennonites deserted the sect's pacifist principles and joined the armed services...
...spiritual leader of Mexico's million-odd Evangelistas, Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God is in a tough spot. In Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are sometimes stoned. Small boys ring Evangelista doorbells, then run, or paint Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting...
...Clergy. In his will, Stephen Girard declared that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever" be allowed within the college wall. His next of kin, hoping to break the will on the basis of the anticlerical clause, once hired Daniel Webster to argue the case. Webster lost...
Would he be as religious-minded as his predecessor, Nicholas Murray Butler? Said Eisenhower: "I am one of the most intensely religious people I've ever known. That doesn't mean that I necessarily adhere to any particular sect . . ."*Was he planning to make any drastic changes? Replied Ike carefully: "I hope to become a useful member of the community, of which, frankly, I have always been frightened. It is going to be quite a task for me. I have nothing to say about education. I don't know enough about it. Right...