A Bit of Baptist History

I am part of an email group for Baptist History and this was what I received today. I got a special blessing out of it, and thought I'd share.
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"The third case in point is the capital of the state of Parahyba. 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 Parahyba."

(The above paragraph is from the article "Brazil Needs Gospel Preachers" that was written in the "News and Truths" paper on September 27, 1922. "News and Truths" was a weekly Baptist paper edited by H. Boyce Taylor of Murray, Kentucky. Parahyba is state in the northeastern part of Brazil. This is just another historical example of the Bible making Baptists.)