Baptists and Unity

Abstract

"At the close of A History of the English Baptists by Dr A. C. Underwood there occur these words, "(Baptists) do not imagine that they have reached finality, but they are ready 'as the Lord's free people ... to walk in all His ways, made known or to be made known to them.' " It is in the spirit of that attitude of true Christian pilgrimage that the new General Secretary, Dr Russell, has recently listed certain major issues which are facing Baptists in Britain and which will need "sound judgement, mutual trust, prayerful concern and resolute action." One of those issues is the attitude of Baptist Churches, and therefore of Baptist ministers, to the ecumenical movement"