ABSTRACT
The English authors were delegates in the mid-1830s from the British Baptists to the American Baptist General Convention, Their comments on their co-denominationalists in the United States are of particular interest in a period when the Baptists almost matched the Methodists in the dramatic expansion of their numbers through successful evangelism. Yet the task of winning souls in the Mississippi Valley against Catholic competitors and in the newly settled area of the North West necessarily led to a stress on the funding and organization of mission work but also, from a more staid British perspective, some concern about appropriate forms of revival activity.
