p. 17 | CARLYLE B. HAYNES by Carlyle B. Haynes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1911

CARLYLE B. HAYNES

By Carlyle B. Haynes

Maryland

BALTIMORE.—The largest number of people that ever attended a Seventh-day Adventist meeting in Baltimore assembled on Sunday, October 8, at a public baptismal service in the lake at Gwynn Oak Park, which is just across the city line. The crowd on the shores of the lake numbered above four thousand. The trolley company put on a large number of special cars to handle the immense crowd. Hundreds of people walked from surrounding villages, and other hundreds came in automobiles. After the service, I was told by the manager of the park that the road running past the park was filled as far as one could see with automobiles that had been driven out from the city, carrying those who desired to witness the baptism.

For several days preceding the day of the baptism the trolley company had carried placards on the front of all the cars in the city, 1,200 in number, announcing in big, red block-letters that this “public baptism” would be held, and giving the place and date. The company also advertised the baptism in every paper in the city, five in all. All this they did at their own expense. All the papers gave good notices of this meeting. I was privileged to immerse thirteen dear souls at this service. Several others are nearly ready to follow their Lord in this sacred rite. We are hoping that a large number of additional converts to the truth will be made at the series of Sunday afternoon theater meetings, which we shall start in the new theater on Sunday, October 22. The Lord is greatly blessing the work here, and we praise him for the success we have had.