Baptists Take Stand On Racism And Government Integrity
In Dallas 18000 SBC messengers closed a three day gathering by backing a stance against racism and urging public officials to follow both spirit and letter of the law. They backed reforms in campaign spending and urged legal procedures to remove officials found guilty. A late session praised leadership amid Watergate talk and heard Billy Graham warn of a leadership crisis. The convention reaffirmed sanctity of life and supported limited abortion rights in specific cases.
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Dallas
Gerald Ford
Southern Baptist Convention
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
SBC
Christian Life Commission
Commis
Weber Becomes SBC President at Sixteen Pastor Turns Lifelong Preacher
The Rev Jaroy Weber age 53 head of First Baptist Lubbock was first a pastor at 16 in Little Cypress Texas after high school. He studied at Southwestern Seminary and served in Louisiana and Beaumont before Texas. Weber supports mission evangelism with social action and envisions church led social reform while resisting ordaining women in SBC churches. He criticized Nixon Watergate language but urged humane respect for individuals and noted the tide toward change in human freedoms.
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Dallas
Southern Baptist Conference
Jaroy Weber
First Baptist Church of
Lubbock
Little Cypress
Tex
Shirley
Texas
Southwestern Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Louisiana
Beaumont
Weber
SEC
Nixon
SBC
Southern Baptists
Man Freed By Jury In Robbery Slaying in Winnsboro South Carolina
A nine to twelve jurors acquitted John Wells Trowery Jr. of Coatesville Pennsylvania in the February 16 1973 break in that left Dr J Dill Pittman a Lan caster physician dead. Prosecutors alleged Trowery hired by others to rob the doctor with three state witnesses indicating planning and motive. The jury delivered the not guilty verdict at 1 33 a m after almost 12 hours deliberation.
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Winnsboro
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
General Sessions Court
John Wells Trowery Jr
Coatesville
J. Dill Pittman
Lancaster
William R. Hare
Trowery
Trewery
Oliver Massey
Billy Mellwain
Robert L. Haouze
Pittman
John D. McLeod
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Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Sion
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Commission
Jcpenney
Fathers Day
Hare
ACA
Zenith
Sizas
Westchester Mall
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