BAPTISTS' GREAT FUND COMPLETE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 11

BAPTISTS' GREAT FUND COMPLETE.

\BLD SCPMfi OF THANKS, j CIVLXG. . 1 There was 3. memorrtblo scono ;tt:t f Albert Sail,' ti7.ndg.il,, ou ..April 27, 011 j the aecsisfoli <if tlie completion of th« Baptist .Siisientatiuii Fuiid of £250,000, destined 'to raise to- figure in fomo ea.v-s rciiresß-ii.ting an increase of over WW' ptef cent, the.' stipends .of Baptist. • ministers througi'.out.,. tho -. country. WiVcthcr- he would or no, tlib . j resolved to make. the- .pccssion very '' | much oi a pi rsotial trilnite tc'tlie K'ev. .1. H. Shakespeare, 01.1 whom tho brunt Jof tlie liiirile'ii .of tlie fund for 'M.ifl-.v'liWt " two ycfii'S b;.iS fallen. lioud aiid pxo- | longed cheers greoi.ed hi:, ..first - schiiecce. ."Two years a.go- April ,23,'. I l!)ll' -we Invtnchocl our Baptist Susten-.-. ! xaiion Rind to raise £2j70,0<.'0, To-, ■.nig'ivt- I .am - <fi.b)e tci announco that, through the mercy of God, wo have liot fttiiy nviiehcd ottr goal, but gone, beyond it."- There was a fresh, demon-st.ral-ion at. the mention ef tile' actual liguros--C.2r>2,2:i0. ~. Round this single sentenco. tho. rest '' of the "meeting, was crystallised. Elnj cidaiion., reniiiiisce'nc.'c, and, ahevo all, 'thaiiksgivjug.. [ were 1116 dlininrint. ' notes. Jlr. Shakesppa.ro. added a .few f tiwv-tj figures. The. unin fund, he rej cal'lpd:,'was for Knglaii! l . only. liut AVidcs, j Scdtlsnd;. and Irelaivd liad ■■ eaeji boeit ■ I forward wit!.', t-ho Ramo. w:orlc nn I tiieir eWn -nccnunt, wit.Vtho result that t)iG -siiiitentation .for. tho TJ'iiited K;n;;iioiu, was £.'i2!),(f)l : , raised inside two year's and. penny to the constant and permanent work of the. Cnureh.. .. ; ,■ J. T.'jndou, with £'(35,75T, jes.ponsib.io for the Inrrest coii'-ribntioh, .anil :• the cowifiies of Yorkshire and. Lancii-. shire 'Were first, and swoml . with £31,I iO-6 and i'eO.SO'J respectively. ... Tlie , i Woine.ti hnd dene niniillg : at .fiSO.fillt) and realising f00.,763. _. ■ Mr. -Sbikespcare was prece<U!d by tho Chief Whip, and. followed-by . Dr. P. ■ 't J fever. In his. first words Mr. '■ lilineWorth voiced the urh-ersal. fce.l- ---! ing, not: only of Iho -meeting., but of ■ ' | the H.intist Church. .v.v--j "Tlie" Baptists of England," ho de- | elared, "are too!, .hero. animated by.; •! f.-eliiii;s of iov and thankfulness to God.' ' | This is one of the notable events in the. histery of our conirinnity. . We_ havo . 1 great in o.ivr h.istflry.v .hhtit ; iiyai'i our history -is a lvistery ef sniaU ' inen and sural! chapels . .and nieej ing):<ni.?(f."-. (cheers)~men . whom nc'ither ; jiitms nor ; p6ftsvltic's ; . .' lior fjorsectitlon, ; ' rould iurn aside from' teaehing .what ''i t.ev f-hought bo rieht for n ; ?ht-r, I' sr.ke." (l,oud cheers A Those, were tli.e eion. the sneaker concluded, -from whom ' the load of werty and pernio 1 had at . ?as't been lifted; - .. L ' : . .. Br. Meyer, as chairman el ihe.Siiston-• ■ +.!<i;on Ftind Committee, had. a SXreat t' receutiois .aH lie rnSe. ijiv© : ~\-efsion of how the fund WfiS ' 'The other version proved fe lie a " t,dan!a».-on of the chanter -.fvßtt! XeUenviah, from w-hieh the famous swmle or ; fhe building of. the wall so familiar W .-; linnt'st-s- for . the last two. yews, has. "i--'b'Eeii. lierrowefti ".Verse... liy:• -verso.;,the foilowM with keoti I t!on the application of the famtliar Old )-. Test.went wor.ds. fo. the achieveri'enf, , their Cbi'treh. had rslaced te -Js cretht. i "And tl!e'--'bu'ildii! ; :g went forward, f read t*r. Meyer, "for the,T,cnulc uad '■ a i»itid.l<> tho work : " Vnd f 'ite iV.«n!e n?it net- off i the " 1 clothes dav nor niglti." he prweeried, ' amid 1 audi tor, tba t. prow tumultous a s ij the phrase cor,eluded; "saving that !- th«v nut. tliein of? to wash. . - ' ißo' "the . :sA,n v . 'the «">I! was finished »'• < 34 'J**'*!,. o, i ' ftia 27th 'lav of the month of A.nnl. or ; il.o venr 191 i." and i» drive the .truth v c'tSl' 'further home a diagram «f the. I w« was. lifted m te the platmrm a W r d apnlniise front every ounrter Ijt. •- wrote on the. conuie-stene the v wwrds that set, a ternr fe JnWs S ■ of two ven-rs of clf.e'rt np'd 'seM-wern-ee-r' " :\i Inst room was left fer ;n Thee 1- hive: wo 'trvisted, and Tiieu has net mitfefed nr. to ho nivt |e_sname. and i f .:,,,„ ns the ciK.tr '"-eke trie i S "H-.|)ri-.i->h" O'orus, followM bv r-; the hymn we »dl our Ooa.