BAPTIST UNION.
SPEECH BY A NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE. ' By Telecraph-Press Association-Gopyrisht London, April 26. The Baptist Union Assembly is in session. It gave an ovation to the Australasian delegates. The Rev. R. s>. Gray, responding, said -Now Zealand had abolished the bookmakers for ever, and that within nine years she would have no liquor trade. Trli' 1 ? ?" ptist . U J" on of Great Brita 'n and Ireland is a federation of self-governin" Baptist churches, and undertakes • (fi Church extension; (2) the evangelisation of towns ami villacc;. through appointed commi«io D trs; (3) grants "to countrv churches; 4) retiring pensions for aged pastors and widows of deceased ministers: !"i Wffl 1£ bl,oa i t,O - n Of Ba Ptist literature and (6) through its Ministerial Recognition Committed. determines who shall have recognition as ministers of tho Baptist denomination. ' •"'U'ust Tho Rev. R. S. Gray has been for tho past eight years pastor of the Oxford lorraeo Baptist Church, Christehurch, New Zealand, and for six years of that period secr,.!ar.v of the Baptist Union of New Zealand. Mr. Gray was appointed ,10 reprint the Baptists of the Dominion at the Pan-Baptist Congress at delphia in July. A\ hile in America Mr Gray will make a special study of the prohibition movement.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 5
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