HOW HE WOULD KNOW.
In his oix-ning n-ldrpss at the conference of the .Methodist Church of Anstral.ifiia at Sydney last w_ ,k, fRev. Dr. Fitchett (the retiring pi-c-si-dent) had something to soy respecting tho r-rcgrcss oi the Cliurch and tho character of its nc.u. "If I drop_.+u out ot' a b:\lioon," lie ixi.xi, " into a gathering of Baptises, I could trll a: on"o who they wero by tlie cut of their hair"—(lau.^Hiter) —" a*n,d if I drop; into an Anglican Synod, I co-ukf (Tiscovcr my ecclesiastical where-abouts oy their collars—(lauc'nter) —but if 1 d :"■_.- fioin tho sky iuto a Alothwl: . C "nicience, I w-onid discover who the re.prceentatives were, not by tho cut of their hair or the shape of their collars, but Iry the type cf tho .a-ccs. Tho Church, he safd, ma<!e faces or strength and pev.nr, which could not be mistaken.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12825, 8 June 1907, Page 9
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