Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-05-19
MAZE BAPTIST CHURCH
GREATEST IN WORLD
Was Hope Held Out at
Baltimore.
Faith Said to Be Max
ing Great Roadway
in Europe.

in Europe.
Great interest was aroused among
Americus Baptists over the recent
statement, made in the Southern Bap-
list convention in Baltimore that the
Baptist church was making great
strides in European countries, and that
if all were united there would be
sufficient Baptists on that continent
to sway the religious and political des-
TIMES of various nations. 1t is gem
orally known that there is a Baptist
Union in Great Britain, and also
Worlds Baptist Alliance, but little that
IS definite about these organizations
is probably known by Baptists as a
rule Because of this the statements
made by the commissioner from Eng
land, Rev. DR.. Shakespeare, will re
read with interest generally. SAID
he:
Il bring you greetings from the
Baptist Union of Great Britain and
Ireland, but am also from the Worlds
Baptist Alliance which is yet only a
name in this country. But it is
more than a name on the continent.
The Baptist faith is spreading all over
Europe, and the time has come when
all Baptists should know it.
eve, of the alliance, quoted a Bap-
fist disturbance and division in Buda-
pest and formed a union of the Hun
garian and Austrian Baptists. We
went to the English ambassador at
the court of the Russian car and de-
manded the release of Payloff, Bap-
fist preacher of odessa, who had been
put in prison. He was released. By
grant of the car there will be a Bap-
fist convention in st. Petersburg in
September. There was a meeting of
continental Baptists in Berlin IN
1908; there will be another in Stock
holm in 1913
Manifesto to Rulers.
1--WE have issued manifesto to the
rulers and leading papers of Europe
declaring that we are world power
for religion and that we have no pol
tics. BY the good work of the
alliance TIE rulers have come to know
that we are world power. When
We asked for the release of Pavloff
we thought we might ask for the lib
erty of him in your name-you men
of the land of liberty.
There are many Baptists who are
taking leading parts in the shaping
of the worlds affairs" continued D."
Shakespeare. Our own David Lloyd
George, the chancellor 0 f the ex-
chequer of England, is a Baptist
But the time has come" rang out
the speakers voice, now again reach
ing the climax of his speech and
pressing home the enthusiasm thai
was beginning to heat the faces OF
those about him, "the time has come
when We Baptists must determine
what we stand for in the world OF
ideas.
HAS the moment come when we can
speak of a Baptist world? Is there
such a thing as a Baptist world at
all? We know that there is a Roman
Catholic world, claiming authority
over the minds of many, and it takes
a great man like your own Roosevelt
to stand up and resist it. There is a
a Greek Catholic world, claiming the
adherence of devoted millions. There
is an Anglican world. Can we speak
in the same way of Baptist world?
1T is my chief desire now to con-
vince you that the immediate and ur-
gent field of the alliance is in Europe
and let me put it to you as clearly
and simply as I can
First of all we must remember that
Europe is only nominally Christian.
Religiously, it may bedivided into
three classes. The Latin nations are
Roman Catholic. The northern are
Lutheran or Calvanists. Then there
is the Greek or Russian church.
Church in Germany
Il will not now say anything of
the church in Germany, which is a
| charred c+u1,op b1ou+od - ,a.:r
ism, from which the people are fast
becoming alienated-by the thousands
each month. Let us turn to the Cath
Ollie countries and see the enormous
opportunities-there where the Cos
pei has been lost and hidden by cere-
mony and dark superstition. Educat-
ed Catholics are finding it more diff
cult all the time to believe and praU-
tice their faith.
THE Russian church, is cold and
suspicious of its hierarchy has not
dared to lift it's voice against MUIR
der and massacre. There is the
chance. Let us grasp the opportuni-
ty before US. The Times has said
that thousands of peasants of the
Russians are turning to the Baptist
faith, and it is true.
Brethren, it seems to nae that Eu-
rope, which was invaded by Paul Of
Philippi in A. D., 25, will be again
rewon.
"On the one SIDE in Furona is roli-