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Show Army Canteens as Baptismal Founts PARIS. jsTo 11 Some of the American Amer-ican army chaplains have been compelled com-pelled to use army canteens as baptismal bap-tismal founts for lack of better equipment equip-ment to baptize the soldiers before going into battle. So far as known this method is an Invention of William C. Levere of Chicago, a Young Men's Christian Association secretary and for several years national president of the Sigma Kappa Epsilon fratrnity. Mr. Leverc established a distributing slation near the front which has nothing noth-ing more than a roof, without walls. The place formerly wafi a beer garden. One day, when troops were moving up toward the front, an army chaplain wandered in and offered to baptize "any of the boys who had not been baptized bap-tized and wanted to be. Some of them took him up and then the chaplain discovered dis-covered that he had no altar and no baptismal fount. "I'll fix that," said Levere, and he) did. He stacked three rifles with bay -! onets fixed and in the center hung an army canteen for the baptismal water. Twenty men were baptized. |