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Show . SO ME REV HOT SHOT. A Frearher Says the Methodist Discipline is liarliciroiis and Outrageous. CtttcAOo, Oct. 14. At the annual meetint of the Methodist ministers Uev..K. W. Bland read a paper entitled, "Literary Revision of the Discipline." - i'iek up the discipline of our church," the reverend :eutleman said, "and you will blush with shame at tindins: the most slovenly, slov-enly, barbarous, outrageous inaccuracies and im letraneies of composition. It does not possess even the ordinary elements of good writing. There is not a single meritorious feature in it, and it would be the labor of a. year for a man with the pen of an Addison to revise it. Take the marriage service, for example; there is a passage in it which is , almost an insult to decency. In one para-Sk para-Sk graph it calls upon the couple to make it V known if there is any physical . impediment ywhieh would prevent their marriage. It is n insult, and to think of reading it in a Viurch w edding." |