How Did Your Denomination Improve a Country

Also, there wasn't a King of the Netherlands (Holland) until 1815.

 

"the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the Reformation, we were Reformers before Luther or Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it." —Charles Spurgeon

"as for our own denomination—in the very country [Germany] where by the most frightful massacres it was believed that the sect of Anabaptists had been utterly extinguished—our good and esteemed Brother, Mr. Oncken, has been the means of reviving it, so that throughout all Germany, and in parts of Denmark and Prussia, and Poland and even Russia itself, we have sprung up into a new, vigorous and even wonderful existence! And in Sweden, where, under Lutheran government, the most persecuting edicts have been passed against us, we have been astonished to find within 10 years, 300 churches suddenly spring up—the Truth has in it a living seed which is not to be destroyed!" —Charles Spurgeon

 

Well, you know if SPURGEON said it, then it must be historically accurate. :tongue3:

 

I cannot state that Australia was converted to Catholicism, but Britain deported an enormous number of Irish political prisioners, so there was always a large percentage of Catholics in the early days.

New Zealand was the last colony of the British Empire and was not ever a dumping ground for felons. As free settlers were encouraged to migrate, there was a definate encouragement of Church of England folks rather than any other religious affiliation. Naturally, the missionaries of Catholicism and others came out, to convert the native peoples.