RELIGIOUS REVIVAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6442, 5 November 1947, Page 5

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL

NOTED in SOVIET RUSSIA STATEMENT BY BAPTIST’ MINISTER “It was reported ’at the Baptist World Alliance that two-thirds of the rural population and one-sixth of the city population in the Soviet Union were practising Christians,” said the Rev. C. J. Tinsley, former president of the Baptist Union of Australia and former vice-president of the Baptist World Alliance, who is attending the sixty-fifth annual assembly of the Baptist Union of New Zealand while returning to Australia from the seventh Baptist World Congress in Copenhagen. Mt Tinsley said it was a difficult matter to arrive at exact figures of the strength of the Baptist Church in Russia. However, the deliberations of the congress showed that the Baptist Church was doing aggressive and successful work, and a number of converts came from the Russian youth which had already been trained in the anti-God movement. It was staled that there was no religious persecution in Russia now. Mr Tinsley said the Baptist World Congress, was attended by’ delegates from 50 countries, representing' 16,000,000 Baptists.