. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. o CO E W ou n § o oo I cq ENGLISH BAPTISTS. 495 connection with Spurgeons Metropolitan Tabernacle, and issustained entirely by voluntary contributions. The Baptists at the present time occupy the foremostposition among the Dissenters of England. Rev. Mr. Doug-lass, a clergyman of the Established Church, has recentlythus written of t
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. o CO E W ou n § o oo I cq ENGLISH BAPTISTS. 495 connection with Spurgeons Metropolitan Tabernacle, and issustained entirely by voluntary contributions. The Baptists at the present time occupy the foremostposition among the Dissenters of England. Rev. Mr. Doug-lass, a clergyman of the Established Church, has recentlythus written of them : It is a fact that the Baptists havebeen growing, in recent years, in a more rapid ratio thanany of their neighbors. In London and neighborhood theincrease of Baptist chapels within, say, fifteen years, has beenout of all proportion to previous growth. Their rate of in-crease is twice that of the Independents, and three timesthat of the Wesleyans. We do not believe, in a word, thatwe would be far from the truth, were we to say that themost promising and extending denomination in England atthis monent is the body of Christians of which we the wonderful prosperity of Baptists, of whichMr. Douglass speaks, is due largely to the instrument
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