The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1895-11-23
Some Facts About Baptists.

The Baptists have 44,O69 churches
throughout the world and Of this number
80, 1873 are in the United States.
There are 4, 1S4, 507 members of Baptist
churches.
During the year 1894 there were es1, 7s4
persons baptized.
There are 20, ,S71 ordained Baptist min
listers.
In Spain there are 100 Baptists, in Ger
many 81, 332, in England 2O8, 728 and in
the United States 8, 400, 9SS.
Baptists raised for missions last year
81, 467, ,294.
The expense Of maintaining Baptist
churches, including salaries, for the year
1894 was 81, 9S6, AGA.
The value Of their church property Is
$78, ,6O5, 100.
Baptists sustain 152 educational institu-
tions in the United States, with /, 791 in
structors, %, 966 pupils and property worth
$s1, ,s6s, ,902.
The Baptist membership is largest in
Georgia, where there are 852, ,595.
The largest number Of baptisms in any
state last year was 20, Sl8-in Georgia.
New York aggregates the largest annual
contribution, tho total for 1904 being ST.
S26, ,O27.
Massachusetts Baptists average more
contributions per member, giving SIC. IS
each.
Baptists use three chapel cars in the
west, and these have travelled II, 834 miles
and distributed 74,945 tracts and 6S1 BIZ
bles.
The Baptist Home Mission society en-
ploys ILL missionary workers In this
country.
The American Baptist Missionary union
has Q, 1873 workers in foreign lands.
1t Is expected that the rigid democracy
OF the Baptists Is to be brought out with
some distinctness In the coming congress
with reference to the Chicago university.
This Is the institution which John d.
Rockefeller, the STANDARD Oil magnate,
has endowed so literally frx.I, his millions.
Mr.. Rockefeller Is prop,inent Baptist
and Is one Of the delegates to the present
congress. He is the richest Baptist in the
world ana has been very generous to the
church, but he will doubtless be given to
understand that he is no better Baptist
than many who have given of their small
or store with as free hand.
The point to be raised Is that the Chi
oago university is not, as has been init
mated in some directions, an official ex-
ponent Of Baptist principles or ideas The
forced retirement of Professor Bemis from
that institution because of his radical
ideas on the labor question is not endorsed
by many Baptist ministers. This ISSUE
however, will not be allowed to cause
more than passing breeze, and the con-
gress will pass on to things Of more solid
import
| The Home Missionary Work.
The reports of the Home Missionary So
oieties will be doubly interesting this year.
The Raptists go into this work with p
great deal or zeal, ana the results they &C
oomplish are of great magnitude.
In the west and northwest the Baptist
are being gathered into the fold in larg
numbers. Wherever collection of shan
ties is found forming the nucleus of tow
q Baptist church is pretty sure to be bull
as the pioneer house Of worship.
1t was the Baptists, too, who first put
church on wheels. Today thousands c
homesteaders in the great west anxiousl
await the arrival Of the gospel car at ou
Of the way sidings and desolate lookin
stations. This unique evangelical wor
was begun over 90 years ago in St. James
Mimi, when Sunday school was held Il