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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 7.

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New Church

By Editor

The following items are clipped from the Marion (Iowa) Register. We can take no particular exceptions to them, except the application of the term reverend, to a preacher of the gospel, which we do not understand the Bible to warrant. We are glad the contrast between primitive apostolic, and modern fashionable, styles of worship is seen and appreciated.
"NEW CHURCH. Rev. Mr. Cornell organized a new church last Sunday called the Church of Jesus Christ. After reading the articles of faith, about fifty persons rose up and gave their assent to them, and afterwards signed them. In the afternoon he preached his farewell sermon, after which he administered the rite of baptism by immersion to thirteen persons in the presence of a large crowd assembled to witness the ceremony.
"We learn that some eight persons, all members in good and regular standing in the Baptist church in this place, dissolved their connection with it on Saturday last to join the new society recently formed here by Rev. Mr. Cornell. He has a large tent on the commons, where the primitive style of conducting public worship contrasts strangely though not unpleasantly, with the modern fashionable churches."