Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The Northern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., has opened its doors to women studonts. Bishop Warren will not go to India this fall, us was expected in accordance with the plan of episcopal supervision. The prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors in the American portion of the Samoan Islands baa had a good effect. The Rev. Dr. A. J. Canfield haa teslgucd his pastorate of the Universulist Church of Our Father, Brooklyn, nnJ will retire from active church work. The validity of a will leaving SIO,OOO to on Advent publication society of Boston, to be used for counteracting the belief in the immortality of the soul, was questioned by a nephew of the deceased, and the court haa sustained the will on the ground that he bad the same right to teach his doctrine as the Christians to teach theirs. Dr. Lyman Abbot, in the Outlook, answers the question, “Whst is Religion?” as follows: ‘‘Religion is the art of living, and nothing else —living with hands, feet, eyes, palate, conscience and reverence; it is the life of the whole man. Nothing more than that la possible.” Prince Bernsdotte, eon of King Oscar of Norway and Sweden, was elected president of the world’s convention of Young Men’s Christian Associations, recently held in Christiania. King Osoor bald a reception of the 2,000 delegates pretest, thirty-eight of whom were from <h# United States.