Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The Pope has excommunicated persons seeking to creste s national church In the Philippines. The late Dr. Parker’s pulpit Bible contained the signatures of rnauy distinguished men who visited City Temple. "The church is not meant for a Sunday club,” says Coadjutor Bishop MackaySmith of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Philadelphia. According to n recent census of church attendance in New York City there la a larger attendance in the smaller churches In proportion to the membership th'un In tho large ones. The Christian Work snd Evangelist aaya that Protestant Christendom la seeking a practical basia of church union now with an earnestness not known tinea the Reformation. The Baptist congress, which assembled In Boston, discussed many subjects of social and doctrinal. Interest, among them the question of whether or not baptism la essential to church membership. The Rev. Eugene McDonald, who has been appointed a chaplain In the United States navy by President Roosevelt, Is a Roman Catholic priest, who for soma lime baa had a pariah at Red Bank, N, 3,