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18. The first church which was organized in what was then called the
“Northwestern Territory,” was at Columbia, now a part of Cincinnati, which
was a Baptist church. This was in 1790.
19. The originator of what is called “Modern Missions,” was William Carey —
a Baptist. This was in 1792. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian church
of Scotland, by a large majority, put on record, in 1796, the following
resolution — says Zions Advocate: “That to spread the knowledge of the
gospel among barbarous and heathen nations, seems highly preposterous, in so
far as it anticipates, nay, even reverses the order of nature.” As we have seen in
a previous chapter, no Baptist church or general Baptist meeting ever tarnished
its fair name by such a resolution.
20. The Baptists have near twice more converts to Christ in heathen lands than
have all the other leading denominations; that, too, when the others have taken
many of them into their churches, as only nominal Christians.
23. Baptist foreign missions cost less than one fourth the money that those of
leading Protestant Pedobaptists cost.
24. The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Service was originated
by a Baptist — B.F. Jacobs. This is the natural result of the pre-eminent
Baptist love of Bible study and Bible obedience.
25. The world’s greatest preacher since the Reformation was a Baptist — C.H.
Spurgeon. The purer the gospel, the greater its preacher.
26. The first organized society for the much needed revision of King James’
version of the Bible was the American Bible Union — a Baptist society. This
was the natural result of Baptist love and loyalty to the Bible.
27. Out of the American Bible Union agitation and work originated the
Episcopal organization, resulting in the Revised Version of 1881, on which
was employed European and American representative scholars. The revisions
of the American Bible Union and its successors are of incalculable value to the
world.
28. The only Bible Society which has ever existed for the translation of “every
word” of the Bible into the English, according to the world’s unsectarian
scholarship, was the American Bible Union — a Baptist Bible Society. In this
it is measurably succeeded by the American Baptist Publication Society.
29. By their Bible translation enterprises Baptists have proved themselves the
only leading denomination that has thoroughly rejected the Romish doctrine of
keeping the Bible out of the language of the people; and in rendering every