To the Editor of the Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—I have read with keen interest what your Washington: correspondent has to say about the, to him, alarming growth of the Fundamentalist. movement in the United States and also what he says about the doings of the two great Christian bodies—the northern Baptists and the northern Presbyterians. I would infer that he is quite rejoiced at what he thinks the triumphs of the liberals, and it would be easy for the uninformed about Ac: erican Baptist affairs to infer from his letters this year and last in your columns on the same subject that. the great Baptist hosts of America are quite in danger of being swept entirely away from their conservative moorings out into the sea of liberalism. I have not been very much in our home land for past 35 years, but I take and read carefully five Baptist weeklies from widely separated parts of the country as well as a great secular magazine. I had already seen a full account of the first_few days' meeting at Atlantic City, written by a member of the Convention and I did not get the same kind of an impression as to the strength of the liberals as the Washington writer seemed to get.
I shall not write of the doings of the Presbyterian Assembly except to say that they seemed to have had quite a lively time; but I am quite unwilling, as an American Baptist, to allow the readers your great paper to accept the statements in your correspoadent's letter and to imply, as it seems they very likely will, that American
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