Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Such Presumption. [ARTICLE]

Such Presumption.

At the American chapel at Lucerne, a Protestant Episcopal minuter from this country (Low Church) read the lessons with such naturalness of manner and propriety of emphasis as to elicit the admiration of a visitor, who afterward remarked: “How delightful to hear the Scriptures read \tfith such sense and feeling!” She was surprised to hear the sister of a (High Church) rector, American also, exclaim: “I can’t agree with you. I think it almost blasphemous for a man by such stress and emphasis to impose his own interpretation on the Word of God. The Scriptures should be read in monotone. c