tjit famittj
OUR OLD CHUROH,
The following lines lately appeared in the
Rejnadicart, and are from the pen of a Chris
tian lady
Take them out tenderly, lift them with care,
For every old timber is seasoned with prayer;
And gently remove them—the old plastered walls—
Where sadly and faintly the last echo falls.
And take out the wmdowe; the light streaming
through,
Though not " dim and religious," lit every pew,
Where fathers and mothers united in prayer,
And we felt "that the spirit of worship was there."
There. the youth and the maiden together have
stood,
And plighted their troth in the presence of God,
There parents have promised to tenderly rear
Their children in " holiness, justice and fear."
While out from that pulpit, so old and so worn,
J)ark warnings and threatenings often have come,
And gentli God's promises fell on the ear,
To whisper of mercy dispelling each fear.
And hushed is the organ; i its last solemn lay
In darkness and silence is "dying away;
And tolling so mournfully sad, like a knell,
Fall the deep moaning tones of the old worn-out
Anil silent the voices that once filled the choir ;
They sang with the spirit, and theirs the true fire.
But some have gone home—they are still praising
God,
While others yet.meekly "pass under the rod."
But thy days are all numbered, old church on the
green,
The last of thy stately pews soon, will be seen,
And old things must go to make way for the
new ;
For the hearts that once loved thee are scattered
and few.
Then take down the pillars, and unhinge the doors,
Remove the old pulpit, and take out thelloors;
For one of the lesson's that here we were taught
Was, "the best work of man only cometh to
naught."
Good bye, then, dear church, with thy windows so
tall,
With thy very plain aisles, and thy old battered
wall
We love the old gallery, empty and cold,
Now frescoed all over, with cobwebs and mould.
But much as we love thee, old church on the green,
Thou art growing too old, it is 'plain to be seen,
And Time's busy fingers have done their work
wcll,
From pulpit to porch, from the aisles to the hell,
But while Time has been spoiling our church on
the green,
Crowds of true worshippers weekly were seen,
And the record is kept, for God's angel of love
Has written it down in the Temple -above.
HOSE AND THE MAY-FLOWERS.
Rose stood at the gate swinging her hat by the
elastic,
and digging the toe of one of her pretty
Polish boots into the gravel. She was thinking
very deeply, or as deeply as can be expected of
eight years old, and she looked as if she was al
most afraid of her own thoughts.
"Boo!" cried somebody in her ear, and Harry
jumped out from behind the lilac bush, laughing
at the success of his practical joke. Harry was
only nine, you see, or he would have known that
practical jokes are always stupid, and often dan
gerous.
Rose screamed a little, and flushed very red;
but the next moment she came close up to Harry,
and said, very softly,—
"Harry, do you know where Lily-pad Pond
" Course I do. Why ?" replied Harry stoutly.
" Because Tom has been up there, and he said
the May-flowers were in- bloom just as thick as
anything, and he brought home a little weeny
bunch of them, and wouldn't give me one. He's
n•oinc , to hang a May-basket for Susy Robbins,
know he is."
" Well, what of it ?" asked Harry, with a puz
zled look.
" Why, I want some myself; and—and—may
be I was going to bang a May-basket," said Rose,
bashfully.
" Was it for me?" asked Harry, brightening
" 0, that's telling; but I wish I had some May
flowers."
" Can't we get some somewhere ?" inquired
Barry, eagerly, looking about him as if he ex
pected to see wreaths of May-flowers springing
from the gravel sidewalk.
" Why, we could get some at Lily-pad Pond,"
said Rose, beginning to dig her toe into the ground
again, and looking very guilty.
"'Will your mother let you go ?" asked Harry.
" I didn't ask her," muttered Rose.
" Do you suppose she would let you, if you
" No, I don't believe she would," faltered the
little girl; and Harry looked very doubtful, as
he said,—
" Well, would you go without asking her ?"
" I don't know. Would you ?".
I don't know." And Harry began to throw
stones at the pigeons in the road, without, how
ever, meaning to hit any of them. At last he
turned to Rose, and said, in a low voice,—
" Teacher said school wouldn't keep to-mor
row afternoon, 'cause it's Nay-day."
" I know it," replied Rose, looking up.
" We might go right after dinner, and get home
before tea, and they wouldn't know it," suggest
ed Harry, looking very much ashamed of him
self.
Yes. Do you know the way, truly ?"
" Why shouldn't I know it? I went over with
Sam once in the wagon, and he got a whole load_
of lilies to fix up the church that time May Loud
was married. Don't you know ?"
"Well, I will if you will," whispered Rose.
" All right," replied Harry, with a poor at
tempt at carelessness ; andas Rose's mother came
to the door to call the little, girl to tea, he walked
away with his hands in his pockets, whistling
shrilly.
The next afternoon, about two o'clock, Rose
quietly put on her hat, and slipped out at the
garden gate, where, as she expected, she found
harry waiting. Neither of them had much to
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1869.
say ; and when Rose ventured upon a remark,
_Harry was pretty sure to contradict her, and
rudely assert his own opinion; for a boy who is
doilV what he knows to be wrong is generally
defiant and surly about it, while a girl is timid
and doubtful, like our poor little Rose, who, at
the end of the first half mile, tearfully inquir
ed,—
" Say, Harry, would you go 7"
" Go ?" angrily echoed Harry, who had been
striding along in advance, kicking the pebbles,
and whstling as well as he was ale, which was
not very well. " Go? Of course I would. That s
just like a girl, to want to do a thing, and then,
when a feller's willing to help her, she'll back
out. That's what my brother Ben said to-day."
" I don't want to back out; only I wish I'd
asked mother, 'cause I know the won't like it a
bit."
" Yes, she will, too. Besides, she won't know
it. Come along, and don't you cry. There see
that bobolink ! What'll you bet I'll hit him ?"
" No, no ! Don't try to hit him, the poor little
fellow ! I knew you couldn't if you tried, and
I'm glad you didn't "
To this remark Harry deigned no reply, and
the two children trudged along, well pleased nei
ther with themselves nor each other, and hardly
exchanging a pleasant word until they reached'a
grassy path leading off from the road into the
deep woods.
" This is the way," said Harry, confidently, as
he turned into it.
" Are you sure, Harry"? It looks real dark
and lonesome i:► there," said Rose, timidly.
" Hu, ho What a fraid-eat you are, Rose
Of course it's the way, and I shouldn't wonder if
we came to the May-llowers the first thing, before
we get to the pond. Then, as soon as we've pick
ed them, we'll go right home, and nobody'll know
a thing about it."
"So we will. Let's look for them real sharp,"
said Rose, more iiheerfully.
But look as they might, not a May-flower was
to lie seen, nor did Lily-pad Pond appear in sight.
Several times the road divided, and Harry led
the way, sometimes down one turning, sometimes
another, but growing gradually less confident in
his motions, until, when Rose insisted upon know
ing if he was "certain sure " of the road, he sud
denly wheeled about, and said,—
" Maybe we'd better go back now, Rosy. I
don't believe we'll find any May-flowers, and it's
getting late. Ido believe the sun is setting."
" 07 we're lost, we're lost ! We won't get home
at all, and we shall be starved to death, and die
in the woods; and I wish we never bad come after
the old May-flowers at all," sobbed ROse, sinking
down at the foot of a great pine tree, and cover
ing her face in her little white apron.
" Well, it was you that wanted to come, you
know it was," muttered Harry, looking fit to cry
also.
"I know it was. I was a dreadfully naughty
girl; and I made you naughty too, Harry. Do
you suppose the Lord would forgive me, and try
me once more, if I asked Him ?"
"I don't know. 800, hoo, boo, hoo I" roared
Harry, bursting into the stentorian grief of boy
hood.
But at sight of his tears, Rose dried her own,
and came andiput her chubby arms about his
neck, and laid his hot, wet face upon her little
shoulder, whispering the while such pretty com
fort and hope, that Harry presently wiped his
eyes, kissed his little playmate very tenderly, and,
taking her by the hand, said,—
" You're a real nice little girl, Rosy, and I'm
awfully sorry I called you a fraid-cat, and was
cross to you. Come•along, and I guess we'll find
the way out; or, if we don't, the folks will come
to look after us pretty soon, just as they did in
the story about Paul and May, in Sargent's Se
cond Reader. Don't you remember ?"
" Yes, I remember; and tell our mothers
the first thing when we get home—won't we ?"
said Rose, her bright little face all 'smiles, in a
moment.
"Yes, if they 'don't find it out first; but—O,
Rosy, just you look at-here !"• -
It was a beautiful bunch of May-flowers, thrust
ing their lovely pink and - white faces up through
a clump of dead leaves,' and making the whole air
sweet about them. Harry 'hastened to gather
them; and then he.found some more, and some
more until Rose's apron was so full that she
could hardly hold it. .A.nd:the siin,had quite set.
But even while grasping at one last beautiful
sprig, Harry started to his feet, and listened in
tently for a moment, then sprang into the road,
shouting,—
" Hallo!"
" Hallo yourself!" replied a voice; and the
next moment John Murray, Harry's father's
hired man, appeared, walking beside his wood
cart. '
" Why, Master Harry, be that you I" exclaim.
ed he, opening wide his eyes.
" Yes, John ; it's me and Rosy. We've been
picking May-flowers, and we don't know the way
home; and we're •tired : so I guess we'll ride'home
on top of the load of wood," said Harry, muster
ing all his dignity.
John looked at the small couple attentively,
but said nothing until he had them both on top
of the wood-pile, and had started the oxen home
ward.
Then he mysteriously remarked,—
" I might say as I took you along of me, if
you're afeared of getting in a serape for running
off, Master Harry!' , .
" No, I thank you, John ; I ain't afraid," re
plied Harry, bravely;. and Rose whispered,—
" I'm glad you said so, Harry. I'd a great deal
rather tell."
They got home almost before any one bad be
come anxious about them ; and five minutes after
she entered the house, Rosy had made a full con
fession of all her naughtiness to her mother, who,
at the end, said, gently,—
" You must have passed a very unhappy af
ternoon, my child. I hope you will remember
the lesson you have learned with so much pain."
—Our Boys and Girls.
—Mr. Bushnell, of the Gaboon Mission of the
American Board, says that the overthrow of the
persecuting dynasty in Spain, that has done so
much to curse Africa and hinder the introduc
tion of the Gospel among her tribes, is a matter
of thanksgiving. Probably Protestant missiona
ries, who were driven from Fernando Po some
years since, will now return and resume their
work; and other places on the coast and Spanish
islands will now be opened to the Gospel.
LITTLE CHILDREN'S WORK,
We remember being much struck by a lit
thj story, showing that "a word fitly spoken,"
or, to use the expressive Hebrew reading,
given in the margin, " a word spoken upon
wheels," even by the weakest and youngest,
is precious as gold and silver.
One day a boy was tormenting a kitten,
when his little sister said to him, with tear
ful eyes: 0! Philip don't do it; it is God's
kitten."
The word of the little one was not lost;
it was set upon wheels. Philip left off tor
menting the kitten, but many thoughts were
awakened in his mind regarding the crea
tures he had before considered his own pro
perty.
" God's kitten, God's creature ; for he made
it." It was a new idea.
The next day, on his way to school, he
met one of his companions, who was beat
ing unmercifully a poor, starved-looking
dog. Philip ran up to him, and almost un
consciously used his sister's words. He said:
"Don't, don't; it is God's creature."
The boy looked abashed, and explained
that the dog had stolen his breakfast.
"Never mind," said Philip, "I will give
you mine, which I have in my basket;" and,
sitting down together, the little boy's anger
was soon forgotten.
Again had a word been unconsciously set
upon wheels. Two passers-by heard Philip's
words; one a young man in prosperous bu-
SiDeSS in a neighboring town, and the other
a dirty and ragged being, who, in conse
quence of his intemperate habits, had that
morning been dismissed by his employer,
and was now going home sullen and despair
ing.
"God's creature !" said the poor, forlorn
one; it was a new idea to him also.
"If I, too, belong to God, he will take
care of me, though no one else will."
Just then he came to a public-house, where
he had been in the habit of drowning his
miseries, and then staggering home to inflict
new ones on his wife and children. He
stopped—the temptation was strong; but
the new idea was stronger. " I am God's
creature 1" and he passed on.
His wife was astonished to see him sober,
and still more when he burst into tears, de
claring that he was a ruined man, but that
he was determined to give up drinking, and
to trust in God.
At that moment a knock was heard at the
door, and the gentleman came in to whom
we ave before alluded. He, too, had been
rebuked by the boy's words for the scorn
and loathing which he had felt at the miser
able object before him. "God's creature,
therefore entitled to help and pity."
We need not detail the words of hope and
comfort, the promise and performance of ac
tive assistance, which in a short time lifted
up the poor man's head, and made him one
of God's thankful, joyful " creatures."
It would 'be well for us all, old and young,
to remember that our words and actions,
yea our thoughts also, are set upon never
stopping wheels, rolling on and on into the
pathway of eternity.
SOME REQUISITES OF A GOOD HOME.
1. Parental Authority.—There must be au
thority somewhere, or anarchy. The only
question is, in whom shall it be vested, in
the parents or in the children ? Some one
has remarked, rather tartly, that there is as
much family government now as in fOrmer
days, only the order is reversed. The Bible
has settled the question as to the order. Of
Abraham God says, "I know him that he
will command his houiehold after him, and
they shall keep the way of the Lord to do
justice and judgment, that the Lord may
bring upon Abraham that which He hath
spoken, of him." Eli was punished because
his sons made themselves vile; and he re
strained them not. He counseled them, per
haps I should say coaxed them—" Why do
ye such things?"--but he did not command
them. " Children, obey your parents in all
things," and again, " Children obey your pa
rents in the Lord." Where the authority of
the parents conflicts with the authority of
God, children may say as Peter and John
said to the Jewish rulers, "We must obey
God father than man '
" but this is the only
limitation of parental authority. Children
are not to decide as to the reasonableness
of their parents' commands. Very young
children are wholly incompetent to do it,
and even when advanced to years of discre
tion their judgment is liable to be biased by
passion; besides, it is better to obey unrea
sonable commands, prOvided they do not
conflict with the revealed will of. God, than
to offer resistance, to the great principle of
parental authority. But parents should look
well to it.that their authority, which is ab
solute, be judicious and righteous, and guard
against laxness on the one hand and sever
ity on the other. By the former we lose his
confidence. and to lose his confidence is to
lose the child. The government of parents
should be mild but firm, and as one has well
said, "It must be firm that it may be mild."
When once the child perceives that the pa
rents' will, however opposed, must prevail,
the occasion for severity is , gone. Submis
sion follows without difficulty as a thing of
course. ` Vi l this is the case the struggle
must be unceasing and the occasion for co
ercion perpetual. A distinguished foreigner
upon being introduced to the mother of
Washington, ventured to ask her how• she
trained her son to makebim such a man ?
Her answer was as significant as short, "1
faught him to obey me !" Would that we had
more such mothers and then we might hope
to see more such sons!
2. Right Tettehing.—Teaching of some kind
there will be, and, must be, from the very,'
commencement of being. "Somaarents,'
observes a very sensible writer, 11 1%peak of
beginning the education of their children.,
The moment they were capable of forming :
an idea their education was already begun
—the education of circumstances, insensible
education, which like insensible perspiration
is of more constant and powerful effect, and
of far more consequence to the habit than
that which is direct and apparent. This
education goes on at every instant of time;
it goes on like time, you can neither stop it
nor turn its course." Right teaching includes
the instruction both of precept and example;
the former will probably be worse than lost
if not enforced by the latter. The instruc
tion of the lips should not, in my judgment,
be given so much at stated seasons as in set
phrase, as ever and anon, familiarly and in
cidentally. The parents' lips should keep
knowledge. His doctrine should "drop as
the rain, and his speech distil as the dew,
as the small rain upon the tender herb and
as showers upon the grass." Children should
be taught to do justice, not to wrong ano
ther to the value of a pin ; and to this end
the parents themselVes should avoid every
thing like overreaching and sharpness in
trade. It is not well for parents to boast in
the presence of their children of capital bar
gains, for capital bargains, are apt to be
cheating bargains. Solomon describes them,
" It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer,
but when he goeth his way.then he boast
eth." Children should be taught , to speak
the truth. "If a thing happens at one win
dow, and they, when relating it, say it hap
pened at another, do not," says the great
British moralist, "let it pass, but instantly
check them; you do not know where devia
tion from truth will end." The instruction
of children in their early years, the plastic,
moulding period, is devolved, in the Provi
dence of God, especially on the mother ;
upon her who hangs ever the cradle and
guides the infant mind. Mother, forget not
the immortal part of your charge! '" I used
to be called a Frenchman," said the eccentric
John Randolph, "because I took the French
side in politics, and, though this was unjust,
yet the truth is, I should'have been a French
atheist if it had not been for one recollection,
and that is the memory of the time when
my departed mother used to take my little
hands in hers and cause me on my knees to
say, ' Our Father which art in Heaven.'"
The duty of right training rests ultimately
and mainly upon parents. Parents may avail
themselves of the aid of faithful Sabbath
school teachers, and their help may be very
valuable, but after all their assistance is
only auxiliary. The primary and principal
training must be at home. This is God's
plan, and we cannot, if we would, change
the divine constitution. Home is the place
where moral training necessarily begins and
where Mainly it is carried forward and per
fected.—Advance.
(Prepared weekly for the American Presbyterian.)
LESSONS ON PAUL.—XIII.
Acts 14: 8-20.
•
What is known of Lystra ?
Who was the patron divinity of the city?
What was the " speech of Lyeaonia" ?
Did Paul address the people in this languao- t' e ?
What hearer was there in one of his audi
enees ?
Meaning of " impotent"?
Meaning of " steadfastly beholding"
Was the cripple a believer in the Gospel'?
Why did Paul address him in
.a loud voice ?
What is implied by Paul's using the words
" stand upright" ?
What other miracle does this one resemble?
Trace the points of resemblance ?
What two things were necessary in the per
formance of this miracle ?
Is anything else needed now for the conversion
of a soul ?
What was the effect of the miracle on the as
sembly ?
Why would the Lystrians, expect their gods
to visit them ? What poet had written of
Jupiter and Mercury visiting Lycaonia ? What
would make this story familiar to them?
Who were Jupiter and Mercury?
Why did they call Paul Mercury ?
Why Barnabas, Jupiter ?
What was now proposed?'
Whom did they call for ?
To what does the expression " which was be
fore their city" refer?
Was this unusual ?
Why were oxen brought for this sacrifice?
How were the garlands used ?
Meaning of gates" ?
Why had not the Apostles prevented the pro
cession before?
Why did they rend their clothes?
Which of the Apostles makes the address?
What striking differences between' his address
and the sermon at Antioch ?
What is the first point in the argument ?
Meaning of "like passions" ?
What is the second point?
Meaning of " vanities " ?
• What is the third point ?
What is the fourth point?
" Does "all nations include the Jews" ?
Meaning of "suffered " ?
What is the fifth point?
Meaning of " left not himself without wit
ness" ?
What is the whole argument designed to
prove?
What was the effect of the speech on the peo
ple ?
Would the new religion be as attractive to
them as their own ?
Who had followed in the footsteps of the Apos
tles ?
What' interpretation would they-give of the
miracle?
Had the Jews in Palestine ever so explained
miracles ?
_What were the Lyeaonians proverbial for ?
Was Paul actually stoned, to death ?•
- Why was not Barnabas stoned ?
Where in his letters does Paul mention this
stoning ?
Was there a miracle in his sudden recovery ?
Who were these " disciples"
What fellow laborer afterwards joined Paul
at Lystra ?
What reasons for believing that he was present
at this — tirne ?
The next day whither did the Apostles go ?
—About forty priests are reported as, mar
ried at and near Naples.
gtitati4r.
THE AQUEOUS FORMATION OF GRANITE
Rev. Robert Patterson, D.D., of Chicago.
writes in the April number of the American
Presbyterian Review of a recent decided move
ment among geologists towards the theory of the
aqueous, instead of igneous, formation of granite,
as follows :
The process of this discovery was on this wise.
The younger geologists, believing that the sub
stances ejected by volcanoes were derived from
the lowest depths to which man would ever have
access, began to collect and analyze volcanic pro
ducts : gases, waters and minerals. To their sur
prise they found that these consisted simply of
the constituents of sedimentary rocks, frequently
of large quanties of these rocks themselves, in a
half-melted state, and in several cases, of im
mense quantities of the shells of infusoria and
even of fish and pine twigs. It was quite evident
there was no igneous fusion of granite down
there, else the shells would have been burned,
and in some cases not even heat enough to broil
fish or to burn pine twigs. Granite was found
overlying the tertiary strata in Jamaica, and
even penetrating it, which proved the granite to
be a younger rock than the tertiary. Next fol
lowed the discovery that all the tonstituents of
granite existed in the sedimentary rocks, and
could be actually manufactured out of them.
Then, in the progress of exploration, water-marks
were discovered in micaschist, heretofore regard.
ed as an igneous rock, and of fossils in other so
called plutouio rocks. Then the discovery of
graphite in granite was declared by eminent
chemists inconsistent with melting heat. Then
came the discovery of magnetio iron ore in plu
tonic rocks, and even of fossils.
The same conclusion results from a comparison
of the specific gravity of quartz with , feldspar.
The quartz being the heaviest must have sunk to
the bottom of the molten mass, as water sinks
through oil ; and we should find it, not scattered
in crystals through the granite, but all in one
mass at the bottom.
Thus far the steady progress of discovery was
an accumulation of facts disproving the igneous
.formation of the crystalline rocks, under known
chemical and mechanical .conditions, against an
unproved assumption that granite was an igneous
formation. Not a single fact supporting the as
sumption had ever been• presented,. save our ig
norance pf the interior of the, earth, and the as
sumption that everything must be melted by ex
treme heat down; there. Attempts were made,
however, to imitate the subterranean conditions
of heat under pressure. Experiments were made
to ascertain the effect of pressure on melting
bodies; and it was found= by Hopkins that im
mense pressure prevented their melting, unless
at greatly increased heats. Next, experiments
were made by Daubree, and others, to melt
quartz, and the other constituents of granite, by
igneous fusion; which settled forever the question
as to the heat of the melting point in the sim
plest manner; namely, that it would not melt at
all, but that its, crystals would decompose, and
the mass become lighter in the fire; or, where
there was sufficient alkali, would form a black
glass, of quite a different structure and specific
gravity from granite. The product of the igneous
fusion of the materials of granite is not granite
at •all, no more than the ash and cinder of coal is
coal, or than a glass tumbler is ,ilex. It is a dif
ferent substance.
It only remained now to show how granite was
formed, in the wet way, from the sedimentary
rocks; and this demonstration has been given,
and the grauite actually manufactured accord
ingly.
In a word, granite is a mortar, not a metal.
To this conclusion the• most advanced geologists
of Europe have been slowly, but irresistibly, im
pelled; and within the last seven years such men
as M. Rose, Poulett Scrope, Scheerer, Sorby,
Elie de Beaumont, Lye]] and , Ansted have given
their testimony against the fallacy of the igneous
theory. My space permits only one or two testi
monies out of a number before me.
Sir Charles Lyell, in his speech on taking the
Chair of. the British Association as president fbr
1864, asserts, ex cathedra: " Various experi
ments have led to the conclusion that the mine
rals which enter most largely into the composition
of the metamorphic jocks. have not been formed
by crystallizing from a state of fusion, or in the
dry way, but that they have.been derived: from
solutions, or in the wet way—a proce.ss re
quiring a far less intense degree of heat. . . .
The study, of late years, of the constituent parts
of granite, has, in like measure, led to the con
clusion that their consolidation has taken place at
temperatures far below those formerly supposed to
be indispensable. Gustav Rose has pointed out
that, the quartz of granite has. the speSeific gravity
of 2 6, which characterized silica , when it is pre
cipitated from a liquid,solvent, and not that in
ferior density, namely 2.3, which
_belongs to it
when it cools and solidifies in the dry way from' a
state of fusion." . ,
The latest scientific deliverance, on the subject
is by Prof. Ansted, in a paper read before the
British Association. of ;1867, on. The Conversion
of Stratified Rock into Granite. "Geologists
until recently have spoken of granite as 'a prim
itive rock, as the nucleus of the earth, and as
having been from.time to time erupted, playing
an important part in the general disturbances by
which the framework of the earth is supposed to
have been constructed.. The observations of
Daubree and Sorby show that all true granite had
been, elaborated with , water, under great pressure,
at a temperature below melting heat; that it bad
neither been ejected nor had' it formed a frame
work..;There are granites of all ages and of
many kinds. Numorous observations show that
granite alternates with, and passes into, stratified
rocks, and must itself in such eases be stratified
rock; and that its production does l not necessarily
involve the destruction and obliteration of all the
stratified rocks with which it is associated. This
view of the nature of granite will greatly affect
the theories of• geology."
—A, combination of priesta in Mexico who have
withdrawn from ,the Romisit ,Church applied some
time ago to the Episcopalians of this country for
aid in establishing a Protestant Episcopal church.
They ask for the consecration of Don Rafael Diaz
Martinez as bishop of this new Mexican church.