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President. The man chiefly responsible for bringing about this quasi trust (it will endure for at least the next six months) was Dr. James Whitcomb Brougher, the retiring pastor of the Temple Baptist Church of Los Angeles, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif. All last year he traveled about the country presenting his address "Play Ball." Baptists of all shades of doctrine grew to admire him, came to call him "the Baptist unifier," even though they disagreed with his efforts to reconcile the parties. Last week he was elected President of the Northern Baptists.
Politics. The delegates scored Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland; loudly applauded a speaker who declared that neither could ever be President of the U. S.. . . The entire convention called on President Coolidge* and posed for a photograph with him, which included 5,750 faces.
Significant Utterances:
"Leave a man alone with the New Testament and let him be uninterrupted and he will come out a Baptist."—Dr. Frank M. Goodchild.
"There is too much oil in the Baptist Church today."—Dr. John Roach Straton.
"Those wet bills have no more chance than a crippled grasshopper in a pen of turkeys."—Wayne B. Wheeler.
*The President politely ignored a Bible Unionist slur: "Mammonism has gained hold of the United States today. It strikes from the legislatures of the states. It rises from the congressional halls and in the Congressional Record. It blackens the family life of a President of the United States [pause]—I mean the Cabinet life."—Dr W. A. Matthews of Los Angeles.