Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — THEY SHED TEARS When Their, Pastor Announnced That He Was to Become a Catholic. [ARTICLE]

THEY SHED TEARS When Their, Pastor Announnced That He Was to Become a Catholic.

Rev. James Spalding. D. D., the cele. bra ted Episcopal divine, pastor of the historic Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sunday, in his pulpit, mad< public, per announcement, his reasons fo> his resignation from his charge and withdrawal from his church. He formally acJiri ow I edge, t Ji Is Intention of joining th! Catholic church, saying that after long and mature reflection hq_hjtd become convinced that it only had the unity of fait!) and dogma that would satisfy the earnesj sttidentof Christiauity, and Its claim ol authority tn exnonnding the truth an< ,truths of the faith best founded. H 4 claimed a general tendency of Protestant* ism toward deism, its zeal of irreverenci and its doom. The congregation shd tears as he left the pulpit.