Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-08-31
Discusses the Great Results
Of the World Con-
gress.
ITS LASTING BENEFITS.
Next Meeting Will be in
Philadelphia Five Years
Hence.

- - A~'eA AASNg - CsS WI
tor of the Baptist Argus and Amer
can Vice President of the recent
Worlds Congress in London, was in
The city yesterday, returning from
1 visit to DR.. j. D. Clardy's in the
country, where Mrs. Prestridge is
the summer. He favored
The Kentuckian with the following
Was the Baptist World Congress
in London all you hoped for?
eyes, and more than l hoped for.
There were over 1000 messengers
and the program was carried through
from first to last with great enthusi-
asm. The night that the Congress
met there was a roll call of the ma
tions and three minutes were given
to a selected representative from
each land to greet the Congress, and
to give a few sentences on the con-
ditions and hopes of its Baptist peo-
pie. The greeting was generally fol-
lowed by a verse or two of the ma
tional Hymn or some gospel song,
often sung in foreign tongue. At
times the enthusiasm ran so high
that the immense audience would
leap to its feet and cheer and eontin-
ue cheering. That was night new
er to be forgotten.
How did the American Baptists
stand in the Congress?
1t was, once or twice, almost
amusing to see how the English
opinion of the American orator or
oratory changed. Evidently they
expected a rather Fourth-of-July
tone and expression, but the great
est English Baptist present and the
British Weekly, which is not Baptist,
said expressly that the American
speakers appealed more directly to
the intellect and spoke with more
effectiveness than did the English
representatives.
Englishmen, you know, are con-
sentative and not demonstrative. but
they broke loose from all restraints,
told us that the land was ours in
GLIDING their hearts, and they tried
hard to give them into our posses
sion. Yes, both the English and
American messengers mingled as if
they were members of an Anglo
Saxon Nation. On every opportu-
nifty they sought to draw into the
closest fellowship. In the opening
prayer by President Maclaren he
prayed with fervor and tenderness,
especially for our American breth-
rem, who have come in such numbers
and who have aided us so greatly in
our recent struggles against the op-
pressive Education Act"
AS you look back what stands out
most clearly in your mind? What OF
the whole matter?
Two things now impress me
most. First, the fellowship which
have just mentioned. AS Tolstoi has
the killing cold to freeze out al
difference between a naughty Rus
sian noble and his crushed serf
making them just two men, looking
into each others faces, so the throb
ing flame of enthusiasm obIiteratec
all differences and made the mighty
audience full of the tenderest anc
most beautiful unity. DR.. Johr
Cliffort, whom the British press
calls the greatest Liberal in Great
Britain; DR.. Maclaren, England's
greatest preacher; Mr.. Shakespeare
a descendant of the immortal Will
liam, and the managing secretary OF
the meeting; Baron Uxkill, a noble
man of Russia; two members OF
Parliament. Justices White and
Lloyd George, and other such great
men from all lands, became as boon
companions with the humblest.
There seemed to be one heart beat
that throbbed through the great
meeting, which grew more manifest