Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — Taxing Church Property. [ARTICLE]

Taxing Church Property.

-1 jtaetely tpfinfflaJetortf the servant of k J single congregation, out of tt^vVh^l<j

Kdcf#oSmcSa d£S«&toeSeriL Booh church public chanties, gfps*pg| wMi-tod© and although mefldo not say fn vftkrds, nor thick sympathetically, that these oha pels' on theft own “private raiMous dub bouses, 1 ' and the ministers their “tonsetasted stewards <* the dot*." J* their practice, says Mr.dato vSJfi ?Sf he tak a private* nivary » a private school. Minis-

tnx < Tbejf vare built at the cost ot Mourns Mllft tSsBQ ft Kove th,e right ofttmse whom invite. Mr. Hale believer asssiSffi

prevepttog pklieriMn.: and whioh are therefore public Institutions, .should > not be respeatod W. suohijpddoes he see why ohurches which fail Jft this, and which virtually exist as private dubs, should hot be taxed 1 . He would , tax ail churches iu form, and then redit those which do work outside Jtel? own families tfXLhJhe work thus the officer of assessment every year g precise account of the money they had apttJt fn mibiic. The Church must te fudged by its fruits, he concludes- and among the ftuits a commonwealth has a right to exact and.ait in Judgement on,The nofoit imfobrtant is the higher li& of the jommtfnlty iri which! the church exists. j 4 m