THE BAPTIST WORLD CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1144, 3 June 1911, Page 9

THE BAPTIST WORLD CONGRESS.

DR. CLIFFORD'S SUCCESSOR. The question as to who shall succeed Dr. Clifford in the presidency of the Baptist World Alliance is likely to provide sonic little excitement at the Daptint Congress at Philadelphia in .lulio (says the "Christian World"). It is understood that he is to lm an American, hut whether a Northern or a Southern Baptist is a question that is being much discussed in the Baptist papers in the States. Northerners claim the honour for Dr. Stuart M'Arthur, of New York, who has been pastor of the most influential church iu that city for

upwards of forty years. Southerners nominate Dr. Mulhns, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, the largest Baptist College in the world. Both are men of the greatest eminence and of world-wido repute, and the question is not in aiiy sense a personal one. It is simply as to which section of the American Baptists lias the hotter claim to tho distinction l of furnishing a president. ] The Alliance has just issued two notable publications in view of the Congress. One is a "Call to Prayer" for tho week of tho Congress, addressed chiefly, of course, to the six or seven millions of Baptist Church members. Copies have been sent to all the Baptist Unions and Baptist newspapers in tho world, with a view to linking up all tho churches- in a great chain of common supplication and thanksgiving. A similar result is being aimed at in the Baptist Sunday schools of tho world. An order of service has been prepared which it. is hoped will he observed in all schools on Congress.Sunday, Juno 25. Hymns arc suggested, responsive'■ readings are given, a kind of Baptist Catechism is provided on the history and principles of the Baptists, and subjects are suggested for addresses bearing on various aspects of these subjects. If the Second Concrcss is not mora. largely attended than tho first, it will at least gain from tho experieneo then acquired,, and it is being very thoroughly organised so as to be what it is called —a World Cougrcss.