Paraíba is in northeastern Brazil. Recife is the capital city of Pernambuco,
another state in northeastern Brazil. This is another historical example of the reading
of the Bible producing Baptist belief:
[From R. L. Vaughn, Ministry and Music blog, Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]
by Harvey Boyce Taylor
News and Truths
September 27, 1922.
The third case in point is the capital of the state of Paraíba. We had no missionary,
no preaching, no Baptists in that capital. Quite a number of disciples were made under
the preaching of a Presbyterian missionary. In a little while after reading their New
Testament, they got dissatisfied with Presbyterianism and went to the missionary and
asked him if there wasn’t anybody who did things like they did in Bible days. He
tried to satisfy them but couldn’t and then told them where they could get a
Congregationalist preacher, as one of the things they did not like was the
Presbyterian form of church government. The Congregationalist preacher came up from
Recife. After talking with these folks and trying to satisfy them, and failing, he
told them they were Baptists. They had never heard of the Baptists. They had simply
read the New Testament and it had made them what they were. They got in touch with a
Baptist missionary down at Recife and he came out and baptized 40 of them and
organized them into a church. That was the first New Testament church in the state of
Paraíba.
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