Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-03-12 | Page 2 | Wholesale Immersion

WHOLESALE RIMERS 13 V One Hundred and Eightyfour People Peo-ple Baptized in New York New York March 11Xesro men women and chllthensome some deaf some mute and others blind but most of them whole and sound to the number of 1SI were plunged Into a tank of water and brought out of it gasping and breathless in the Mount Olive tist church today Bap This Is the largest number of per sons ever baptised In one LhrlHtloi church exclaimed the pastor Rev > T Walker as he led the Inst of the 1 dripping procession from the font to a pew An ambulnnco was surnmoneJ from the Roosevelt hospital and three p old colored women who had fainted be cause of the shock of immersion com bined with the poor ventilation of the chinch were carried to their homes The extraordinary scene was the cul mination of a series of revival services In this church j which have caused I more i than 700 persons to take communion be sides the 184 who were Immersed today I