Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
of the twenty-seven Baptist
churches in New York city, twenty
three have mortgage debts of from
S15, coo to 5000. One church was
recently bought under a foreclosure
sale for $4,000, the mortgage, with
interest, amounting to $4,000.
We sometimes think it is just as
fatiguing to listen to dull sermon as
it is to preach it. A great many min
listers preach without having anything
particular to say, and the people re-
venge themselves by paying no partic-
ular attention to it.-N. Y. Herald.
john Morley says the very best
thing he can think of as happening to
young man is, that he should have
been educated at a day-school in his
own town; that he should have OPP
portunities also of following the high
er education in his own town; and
that, at the earliest convenient time,
he should be taught to earn his own
living.
The will of a deceased Israelite
was recorded in the Surrogate's office
in Brooklyn not three months ago, in
which the following appears: "Item.
/ do order and direct that there be Civ
EN- to my body, upon my decease, de-
cent and Christian burial" The JeaO-
ish Messenger asks whether +" the law
yer who drew the will was sarcastic,
or the Israelite who signed it stupid"
"A writer in the Catholic Repie1D
answers the question why the Pope
does not incite the Christian people
under the rule of the Turk to rise and
cast off the yoke, by saying that it is
not the Office of the vicar of Christ to
preach rebellion to the subjects of
constituted powers, even though such
powers be infidel and Cypress the
faithful; it is rather his duty to preach
to them obedience in everything that
is not contrary to the laws of God.
The Rev. Mr.. Clark, a member of
the Presbytery of Lackawanna,
baptized man by immersion. The
Presbytery objected to it, and cen
sured Mr.. Clark for baptizing in that
fashion. Mr.. Clark took the case to
the Synod. The Synod spent two days
and night in debating it. Some
brethren said that baptism by
immersion was the wrong way.
Others said that it was the right way.
Others maintained that it made no
difference. Others, that whether right
or wrong according to Scripture, the
Presbyterian Book of Discipline
neither recognized nor contemplated
it. The debate was as spicy as it was
protracted. The Judgment of the
Synod was, "that the administration
Of baptism by the Rev. j.. II. Clark in
the case excepted to came within the
possible limits of a permissible adj
miniStration of the rite, and although
without any sanction of command or
fact in sacred Scriptures, yet did not
involve moral wrong
What is called deconsecration'
service was held in Allhallows Church,
Bond street, recently, 10y order of the
Bishop of London, preliminary to the
removal of the edilice. This church
is one of a large number in the city
which were rebuilt after the fire of
London by Sir Christopher Wren, and
its history is noteworthy from the fact
that its Rector in 1876, the Rev.
Lawrence Saunders. was burned at
Coventry for preaching in defense of
the doctrines of the Reformation, and
that Milton was baptized here in De-
cember, 1908. There was a crowded
congregation at the service, the Lord
Mayor and Sheritfs attending in state,
accompanied by one or two Aldermen
and Common Councilmen. Bishop
Vlaughton preached the sermon, choos-
ing for text st. Luke, H.; so:
Jesus said unto HIM, Let the dead
bury their dead, but go thou and preach
the kingdom of God While the
Bishop was ascending the pulpit an
elderly person in the aisle near the
door called out in loud tone, 81 pro-
test against this service in God S
name but had scarcely finished the
sentence ere one of the guardians of
the peace appeared on the scene and
promptly escorted HIM to the street.