Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-04-12 | Page 1 | Wholesale Baptism |

Type	issue
Date	1909-04-12
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Wholesale Baptism
Type	article
Date	1909-04-12
Paper	Salt Lake Tribune
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	1
OCR Text	Show Wholesale Baptism. ST. LOUIS. April 11. While thousands of persons struggled for points of vantage van-tage toduv. eighty out of 125 recruits for "the Navy of the Lord." a negro cluiroh. were Immersed In the Mississippi river by tho pnstor of the congregation, IJev. .1. I. Parker, who Is called "The Admiral." Thc negro'is. after running from the water, changed their garments In a nearby boiler shop. Forty-nvc of the recruits decided not to join "the navy" when they felt lho cold water.
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