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Show your principles! neglect not your courtesies. courte-sies. -Cor. Chicago Advance. Courtesy. , Courtesy never obb'ges one to give up principles. Courtesy often obliges one to alter his own methods, to remain silent si-lent in the face of error, and even possibly pos-sibly to seem to hold his principles with laxity. Denominational courtesies frequently fre-quently prompt a change of method in conducting a service of worship. I was present one Sunday morning in a Methodist Metho-dist church in Chicago in which a Congregational Con-gregational minister preached. 1 was happy to notice that this minister knelt in offering the prayer. It was a fitting recognition of the customary posture in prayer of the brother whose pulpit he occupied. These courtesies may be carried so far as to be a bit ridiculous. I have heard of such an instance. Years ago a union service of a Baptist church and of the Tabernacle church of Salem. Mass., was held in the Tabernacle ho use of worship A member of the Tabernacle church offered prayer. The prayer was somewhat some-what autobiographic: "Thou knowest that here my father worshiped; that here I was converted; that here I was bap-baptized, no, Lord sprinkled." I am confident that no Baptist brother would have been offended if the Congregational Congre-gational brother had failed to recogniz Bastiat views as to baptism. Maintain |