THE BAPTIST CHAPEL CARS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 3, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 5.

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THE BAPTIST CHAPEL CARS.

Of the four chapel cars now in the service of the American Baptist Publication Society, one is engaged under the care of the Rev. J. S. Thomas, one is in use in California and Nevada, one is traveling in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana, and the fourth, loaded with Spanish Bibles and tracts, is the instrument of the Rev. A. J. Diaz in his missionary journey to the Mexicans. Money is being collected on pledges for the fifth car, to be known as the Ladies’ Chapel Car, and a sixth, to be built by the young men and their friends, is on the way. The cars have traveled 75,000 miles in the five years since they were instituted, and with them 6,000 meetings have been held, 7,000 sermons preached, 4,000 families visited, 4,000 copiesof Scripture given away, and books, papers, and tracts distributed almost without number. About sixty Baptist Churches have been started, fifty meeting-houses secured, and as many pastors settled over newly organized churches, 100 Baptist Sunday-schools begun, 500 persons baptized, and 5,000 persons converted.—Christian Advocate.