THE KALLOCHS AND THE BAPTISTS.
By Editor
THE N. Y. Independent has an article on the San Francisco murder, from which we copy the following extract:— “As a religious newspaper, we are called upon to comment on the fact that the two Kalloches are properly accredited clergymen. We feel dishonored by the fact, and so especially does the Baptist denomination, of which they belong. Baptists have long been ashamed of Kalloch as one of their clergy. They have known that the Baptist denomination has suffered greatly in California, by his relation to it. Very lately a second Baptist paper has been started in California, to be free from his overpowering influence. But nothing has been done to relieve the body of responsibility for him. No Baptist council has taken up his case. The names of the two Kalloches stand in “The Baptist Year Book for 1880,” issued by the Baptist Publication Society. That they are not fair representatives either of Christianity or of the Baptist denomination is most true; but it is a pity that their associates had not withdrawn fellowship from them, as there was abundant occasion to do. In any decent religious body each minister must be responsible for his moral conduct to his brethren, as well as to his God. They must, if he walks disorderly, withdraw their fellowship from him; or, if a majority are his tools, they must put themselves on record so clearly by their indignant and sorrowful protest that their skirts shall be free.”