BAPTISTS AND THEIR MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1945, 31 December 1913, Page 8

BAPTISTS AND THEIR MISSION.

At the autumn assembly of tho Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland at Manchester, the Rev. Dr. Gould of London, in his Presidential Address, ! dealt primarily with the sustentation hind. The response to tho .appeal which had been made from all parts of the country and-from all sections of their communities was a significant declaration that tho ministry as it existed among them must continuo. It was a combined and practical manifestation by the denomination of its interest in tiie maintenance of the ministry. Tho Bcv. J. H. Shakespeare, of London General Secretary of tho Sirstcntation Fund, stated that that effort had Dawrealised £147,000, and he urged the importance of a great final effort if they wero to achieve by the spring assembly tho £230.000 which ihev desired to raise. The Rev. H. Diimiieo (Liverpool) mo ,-ed a resolution recognisin<* that labour unrest demanded tho earnest and immediate, attention of tho Christian Cluu'ch. Tho Christian man must be a- revolutionist; he must revolt against conditions which crushed and damned hundreds and thousands of his fellow creatures., No system of society could be accepted by the Christian Church which denied any man tho right to cam his daily bread. Tboy had round them thousands and thousands of men and women to wbdm life was a curse and toil was a drudgery, and the function of motherhood was a curse bc-cause tboy had not sufficient to maintain a decent physical existence.