/Temperance is a virtue.'which^stands. deVbrvedly high in public 'estimation1 throughout the civilised'world,,-although*, we fear,it is more generally (ncMleJr,tl_-$ L { practised. But it is, proverbially, ppasible. to "have too much of a good thin?,' and the;_ Legislature; o£; Kansas;.:!% • ' under keVy penalties, the cpnsumntibWof' sacramental'wine to jjartake.s itt' the'ffoljp Communion, has, in the exuberance W'Ufl teetotal enthusiasm., overstepped.tli_ limitsf * of discretion and good taste,- '"A'a :niight,,• have'been exp.)eted. Hie epiVcopil^cldi'.-yl--' the Statehave .-ak.n'the lead id'veh'_ment^ s denouncing- this ill-considered 'er.actin'eht;^ Afew days ago Dr. Beatty, the offi-mtinjj'' ecclesiafe'tic of an epis-bp'archufch'at'Lkwy 8 rence, before administpring the Sacramen't 3 to comm atticants, addressed his ' congreed"i' - tion from the a/ttar in the following tehlas.; ? "THe new law," h.. absolved, "forbids to' us'thi- use of wine''at'tli- Communion S__'-"i vice,; decrees'a punishment of twtt"year'B"; imprisonment' ti>* the' pries.1 wH6"ishall!lii* ! fridge: its edicts,;' and 'declares * thatf -'every" church in which.',wine shall b^serveii'to/tbe' 1 communicants,-Kail be.closed.a^-'a .jii-blie' nuisance. ' I iee'd not tellyou 'that -[i B_t_ll,; pay iib heed to anyjsnch\-n_"_t_he_i.; priest", 'at our ordination;' * solemnly'dSidfer- - took to administer the Sacraments !a'c_o_aM Ing to the laws and customs'-6F our church. Be assured that we,will iMYer, .submit Jo an eaVtffly vL.gislature's':-atyr__ptUbß«-ii___.-teh* the chief Sacrament.of.the Christian Faith." Having thus.deliyered himself,. Dr., Beatty forthwith performed the'Cbmiimnioh Service with unmaimed rites. "It.remains to ,be see ti whether "or' __o_'' the" "total ibsrainbtß Who 'at' 1 pfe's _ni. ■ pre__-__.i_.atei -'itf-i Kit-Ms Stateswill'l-etitttre(to' efl-O-dO theperiilries of al law' which toacks 'of* Pagan5 -tes^tttismW r-itaW'thiiii'eblight-ri'ed ■P;*'Londou{Telegi'a^.,'-'^:'-i-;', i '' j m^Tl^

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