Show sabbath day nii topics A no N interesting aaion cation for sabbath breaking is reported from front tennessee oae R 31 king a seventh day adventist wag wail seen plowing in ili his field on sunday hia his practice being after the order of his church to bet act apart saturday instead of sunday for or religious ioui devotion mr air king upa arraignment brought forward the tile defence that he be was a peaceable and industrious citizen and a pious gintle man all of which tha tile court ruled out of the case aa as irrelevant even for the mitigation of his of lence fence the testimony under which he be was prosecuted was quite in keeping with the civilization of that state three separate witnesses testified to having seen mr bir king plowing in the field on the morning specified bithe in the complaint each of firming that hia big feelings word wera very much ranch out outraged razed by what he saw although each had known mr king for twenty five years aad had abw always it Ys regarded him as a peaceable law abid ing citizen the cross examination pursued a little farther revealed the th e fact that the witnesses were under u 11 der a pledge to prosecute viol violators sto re of the sunday law moreover that others who made no pretense of oh ob serving any other day instead of sunday for religious purposes were wera in the regular habit babit of pursuing their work on sunday and had not bean been interfered with hat that the first witness who appeared against mr air king at the time he observed the latter plowing was on the way to his big own field to ex amino his crops that lie the second when he saw mr king wis wes on a trip to another part of the neighborhood for a cow and the other witness was looking up harneit hands the speech of the prosecuting attorney on the occasion will be interesting in co with some other court proceedings of tennessee and utah with which the people of this territory are more or less familiar mr king probably had no more aff affiliation illation or sympathy with the cormons mormons than did the prosecuting attorney bat in lit liis ilia of fence the prosecutor found material materia 1 for this bit of tennessee eloquence alere was a lot of fellows in the olden iden 0 time some adventists or seventh day advents adverts Ad vents or mormons cormons Mor mons or mayflower Alay flower fellows I 1 do not care are c which you call them that believed bali eved in human sacrifices carrying them to the altar itar a and burning them up HS as an incense suppose they should come coma from the same gains section of ehlt th tt co country u n colonel richardson would say you have no right to interfere with tho the rights of conscience of this people and still you cant interfere with them because the bill of kights rights says that every man in this country bai has a right to worship god according to the dictates of his conscience burn children practice pol gamy and every I 1 thing til bog else also of that fort fortl no sir air away with wit 11 all such buell foolishness and and everything of that I 1 do not care anything any abi ing about the adventists Advent ista or cormons mormons Mor Alor mons whether they are right 0 or r n not 0 t but when they come hera here they must walk up to tn ane e rack and eat the same fodder that our folks eat not satisfied with worshiping god I 1 oh oil no but with byoir shorthand reporters your mormons cormons Mor mons a and nd your ad venti ets you want to corrupt not only the whole wae morals of the country but you want to control the courts 0 of f the country I 1 wish to god we had more methodist churches and more baptist churches and more Presby hn churches hurches c and more episcopal Eph copal churches and more catholic churches until every man was bron brought under the tile benign influence of these churches but in the name of GOJ I 1 do not want any of these advent churches or mormon churches the defendant was assessed 76 75 and the judge declared that the ju jury ry bad had been very mild in its verdict A peculiar ceremony emny was performed in the tile county jill j ja atan jose recently A man named eubanks F who was condemned for murder expressed a repentant and a clergyman proceeded to baptize him in the jail bath tub it would hardly be in good form to obstruct the ways of honest penitence in whatever freak it may seek an expression at the same time a rood many who observe such ceremonies as that described will believe in spite of themselves that there is more of method than repentance pen tance in it sympathy making maki 1139 I 1 is 13 getting to ba bg a very important branch of american jurisprudence A distressing little scandal has sprung up in new york over the propos preposition I 1 of bishop potter of the 1 pisco pal church to consolidate st stephens in forty sixth street with the holy trinity at harlem the plan as agreed greed upon by the committees corn ittzes of M the tile two parishes la Is to sell st stephens P bans edifice and transfer ita its property to holy trinity whose rector dr stanger is to bo be the rector of the c consolidated parish mr hart the r rector actor of st stephens and a man of toward eighty years is to 0 o be chosen lor for life rector emeritus or pastor retired from active duty with a salary of 2500 a year and two of the ves thymen of that church are to go into the vestry of the consolidated parish but mr james jamea blackhurst horst for many 4 1 I I 1 I 1 1 alzi 1 I 1 r IZ 77 years the senior warden of st stephens refuges to affix he the church seal to the contract accordingly an application has benn bean made to the supreme court tor for ft a writ of mandamus to comly compel 1 l hiir hirr to 0 o give tip the seal anil still on the other side one ot of the bt st 8 Steph stephen enla n vestry vestryman men bai obtained an injunction in the common pleas t to ta restrain tho the execution of the for consolidation the applicant alleg I 1 ns ng that sir harts resolution in its rif fi fa pasee pascal i through misrepresentation fien sen tation deceit and fraud and is is opposed by one halt half the cestr vestry y it Is contended that tho tile property of oat st stephens which aich it is is proposed virtually to hand band over to pay aff the heavy beavy mortgage mort gaite of holy trinity is is worth 15 1 the new york timet times in comment ins ing on the situation declares that warden Black blackhurst burst is not influenced in his course by any regard d for true religion or the welfare of st stephens but by wholly eel selfish a sh and interested motives mo lives that newspaper says that he holds out because be wa wants tits to put in in bisson bis eon in in law the rev mr sparks as ami assistant stant rector As an indication that this is is eo so it asserts that since the present trouble began mrs afro sparks mr Blackbur Ets daughter ha ba been more active than any other person in in so securing curing egna signatures to affidavits and petitions against consolidation it also declares that vestryman 31 cLanry ry who is on mr air side is i a paid servant of the church an and is not averse to retaining his ilia position and arid that two of the signers against consolidation are paid me members M of the choir on both sides aides therefore it to is ch charged 4 aged that money ch changers angers have got into the temple the opponents of the consolidation say that holy alin ity is is after st stephens money to pay off ita its mort mortgage Vage and that mr ir hart naturally looks on the proposition with favor because under it his ilia salary is to be raised from 1800 to 2500 the other party attribute equally selfish and mercenary motives to waiden warden B blackhurst lac chur a t and his friends the boon boiton journal informs its readers that mr joseph cook preached an old sermon to his tits boston audience last week it wai wa one of bis his an chent attacks ou iiii mr cook signalizes signalized d his sensational course in boston several years ago by euch an altick attack in a similar way but with much more bit bitt einess eimess he be al tacked progressive orthodoxy when he findt appeared on the field it seemed worth while to an iwer him but his big influence tor for several years has been steadily declining and it would not be strange it if bis his last onslaught failed to evoke any reply he ile has probably dis dicarme armeI 1 criticism the best answer to anything mr cook says lathe is the knowledge that it was joseph cook who said bald it tho the ancient scandal over the alleged immorality of dr rylance of st 31 marks arks new now york is once more before the public tha the pastor has his obtained a verdict of 1000 darn agea in in his ilia suit for libel jibe 1 against hia ilia accuser mr the suit went against mr by default he offering no defense but II 11 it tins this is not to ba the end of the caie tho the counsel 0 of f mr 3 ir ex explains plaine that lie d did id no not brina brin hia his witnesses be because caise a mo tion to amend ins ilia answer in order to introduce new now and very important affidavits was pending in another court meantime Ale antime all the vestry of st marks except one member have sent senta a statement through the parish reciting their efforts to have the tile case tried by aa an ecclesiastical tribunal and dr Ry lances refusal to avail himself of this priceless op opportunity I 1 port unity to remove this demoralizing demoralizing scandal from under the tile calcium light of the public court house they also invite v ile the parishioners to express by their votes at the tile forthcoming aster election whether they sustain the present vestry in in its course the case therefore is thus to come up in in st marks church and an ecclesiastical cal investigation begun by wallop B shop potter will undoubtedly proceed in tho th 0 civil courts also a full fall trial of the case on its merits with both aid sides represented is likely to take place tha the demoralizing scandal as the vestry describe it is is sure to continue until the whole truth of the matter ia is brought brough tout out tha and defenders ers of dr rylance should rejoice that it is to be so and they should in in every way contribute to the result |