THE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Speaking iu the Motherwell Baptist Church recently on the .World's Baptist Congress, recently held at. Philadelphia, the j(cv. D. Merrick Walker, Field Secretary of the Baptist Union of Scotland, referred to the unique position held by' the Baptists in the United States. , In Philadelphia alone, he said, there were 10'J Baptist churches, with a total membership of -15,00(1, more than double the. ■entire membership of the churches ill Scotland, while one person in eighteen of the population of America was a Baptist. Tho English Baptist Missionary Society observes its week' of nolf-denial from January 2S to T'cbmnry 3. The society now has '140 European missionaries, wives, and lady helpers, including 27 doctors, <md 12 nurses, 1180 native missionaries, evangelists, and colporteurs, 1145 teachers, 29,820 scholars, and 21,199 church members. Last year there were 211G baptisms. Itecoipts were .£113,901, and payments J!117,!)53. '
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 9
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144THE BAPTIST CHURCH. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 9
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