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Show DR. HE IS OGDEN SPEAKER Baptist Head Executive Officer From New York Office uv. uuxiea ij. wniro. or -New Vorl; City, executive officer of all mission (work in northern pan pt the United states delivered an address at the Sunday evening services of the First Baptist church. He spoke of (the growth of ihe Haptisi batch In Am-i tea from a fecbls few dissenters to the place where ihe last census reports jinake them the largest I'rotesfant church In the United States, numbering number-ing now a little over one and a quarter quar-ter million. Me said the first century saw clvl-liaatlon clvl-liaatlon advance only 100 milei I from the Atlantic coast H? declared that when the town of Cambridge rll jiolsed its selectmen for building o road nine miles In length to the west K atnbridK" . the selectmen rcpln l lie i built the road so long because thej di.i 'not want to ever build again Civilization Civili-zation would never reach father weal ihan these nine miles. Daniel Webster Web-ster condemned the Louisiana purchase pur-chase saying the land Was nothing b ri a desert Clt only for lavage srlld : nlmals The second century saw civilization civi-lization as as far w-st na the Mississippi Missis-sippi ami Ohio rivers, while ihe ih rl centurj has seen the devafopmem of ureat empires between the Pacific ocean and the Mississippi river Or. White predicted iho next five ears would see the compration of all missionary church edifice work in th far weal Dr. White complimented the lloc-iil Baptists upon their plans foi the erection of a new church building a I Jefferson avenue and Twenty-fifth ,slroer Ho said Modern church bulld- j ings must be bullded ffom the standpoint stand-point of social service ' Before coming to i igden. Or White I met In Salt Lake City with President Heber J, Grant and Prawlden; Anthon) W Ivlns of the U. D. S. church and compared work done by the Baptist nnd the i, p. s church, jrood natured-ly natured-ly recognizing differences and congratulating congrat-ulating each other on lUCCeSSOSh. Deacon and Mrs. J. Gebhardt en-lertalned en-lertalned Dr. White and the advlsorv! board of the Baptist church at a ltincheon at i o'clock at their home, 'lH4 Twenty-fifth street. The Rev M. L Hickman of Sartt 1 Lake, superintendent ,,f the Baptist I m stonar; work In Utah, acoompan-j ied Dr. White on. hi trip to Ogden. ' |