THE BAPTISTS IN CALIFORNIA.
THAT old and reliable Baptist paper, the New York Examiner and Chronicle, says of the action of the recent Baptist State Convention:— “The condition of our Baptist cause in and about San Francisco is to the last degree melancholy. The State Convention has just met at Sacramento, and the Committee on Resolutions reported one expressing condemnation of the course of the two Kallochs, father and son. But on a point of order, raised by the elder Kalloch, the resolution was tabled by a vote of 46 to 36. In ordinary circumstances no State Convention can be a disciplinary body. But when one Baptist minister commits murder, and another is guilty of promoting sedition, it is within the province of any number of Baptist men meeting together to express their abhorrence of the conduct of such men. If there is no power in the Baptist denomination of California to condemn so great an evil as Kallochism, it is in so bad a way that it might fittingly receive the pity of a community of Kaffirs.”