WHOLESALE BAPTISM
2|, » IMiMIiHSIiI) IN BATHS Nearly 200 people, their ages ranging ing iioiii .15 to 60, were baptised in the. (ilasgou- Swimming Baths recently. liny .were the converts of Pastor George Sell rev. the. Welsh evangelist, wfm lias been conducting a revivalist, campaign. the baptisms were conducted by i astor Mctcher. who was in full robes under oilskins. Pressed 111 I'mg black .robes from head In heel. the women entered the wider in single file. ' v, ' ,v completely immersed. everai I >< .-;im,' hvsterical, and most enierged from the water with' a. erv of 1 In lleluja h.” In many eases whole families were baptised. r l\\n girls were among the inn\o)ls, one dressed in iennis costume. A.any of the people anuoimccd that they had been cured of tuberculosis and ol her illnesses.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 July 1927, Page 3
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