The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-12


gious Meetings Of the Centu,. ]
Draw Members Of This COVE
ton From ALI Parts Of tha
World and Significant sten.
Are Being Planned to Resn1t
From the Discussions at Tb;.
Notable Gathering.
Baptists of North Carolina are an
ticipating the great Baptist Worla /
Alliance which will be held this
spring in Philadelphia and which
now promise to be one of the nota.
bic religious events of the cen.
tury. The Baptists of America will
have to raise In anticipation Of
this great event $4,000. half Of
which viii be used for entertain.
ment of delegates during this meet
ing.
The Baptists of other countries
are not as wealthy as those of
America. 1t is necessary that
funds be raised by the American
Baptists to bring the ministers
from churches OF the other con.
tinents. There are few denomina-
tons in America which are so low
al to their church as the Baptists
and the leaders of the various as
sociations are confident that ever
minister of the denomination out.
side of America who wishes to at.
tend the alliance meeting will be
enabled to do so. As there are
nearly 100000 Baptists in the
world it may be imagined that
the Philadelphia meeting next
spring will be largely attended.
The Baptists of the United
States are now taking steps TO-
ward the establishment of deaco-
ness homes In the large cities of
the country. The majority of the
Protestant Churches of America
are realizing that there is no force
more potent for the upbuilding of }
their cause than the work Of these
devoted women who give their
whole lives to missions Of mercy
and the care of unfortunates. The
work they do is Of the same char,
acter and the rewards go to the
homes they represent and not to
| the deaconesses themselves.
| The Lutherans and the Method
lists are the only Protestant
/ Churches In America which have
more separate bodies than the
Baptists The Lutherans have "a
separate organizations, the MethO-
dist Is, the Baptists IL, and the !,
Presbyterian Is. The Baptists rank
second among the Protestant de
nominations In the number of
] congregational organizations. The
| religious statistics resently gath
| cred by the. census bureau show
that there were 81, $50 Baptist
organizations in 1906 as compared
with 64,7005 Methodists and Is
500 Presbyterian. The Baptist
j have one-fonrth of all the reigi
lous congregational organization
lin the United States. With ths
.Methodists they have more thai
half of all the Protestant con
municants In the United State
with more than 100000 mem
bers out of the 20,000,000 PrOtes
tant communicates, The Method
list have about 100000 more men
bers than the Baptists DurinI
the six years covered by the recer
. report of the census bureau tn
!. Baptists gained nearly twice
much in membership as their clO
est rival, the Methodists The
/ gain in membership amounted
i, 949,0 900 as compared with
l6o,00 of the Methodist, $500
: for the Lutherans and half milliO
E each for the Presbyterians an
Diciples.
i Ia the matter of ministers ii
Baptists are far ahead of an
: other religious organization.
4 the 164, 900 ministers of the d
4 nominations. Protestant, CathOh
, Jew and Mormon, 1890 are
:. Baptist afliation. Two ministe
out Of every seven among the TT
testant churches are of the Bapu
s faith The denomination has larg
q number of schools for the educ
ton of its clergymen Many OF the
schools are richly endowed az
much encouragement is gwen
: the young men of the church W.
7 take up the work of the MIN
I try
I The Baptists rold first ran
/ among all denominations IN eVeI