THE R.VDIGAL BAPTISM OF PETROLEUM

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 30, 22 November 1873, Page 10

THE R.VDIGAL BAPTISM OF PETROLEUM

&OXE tew months a 3 o fearful excesses ware oommittea at Aloov i a Spain, wera Spanish communists baraad people alive in petroleuai. We njw read that the JVench raiwaU or oatroieurs have abolishS baptism in the southern departments of France. They hive su£ti. tuted rites newly invented by theia«lv«, for the Clxurch's sacramen a. Thus at Toulon, newborn infants are presented to the Rapublioan Oercle, and cjnseoratoi to Lz Sspubliqice. Iv a certain town of fee tfouenes dv Rhone, their cer<}.noQial id even more peculiar A maire has just been deprived of his office for hmug tolerated a vary abom Z able performance. A number of ELxiioiX catechu^ans were acfcuaUv baptized in petroleum, and voiles an, rouge. At Ciroassone, the Communards are less « advaaced." They still bring their infant* to church but they want the priests to administer the Moment according to SS?T a l3Sit?^£? mrantiiuc. Tui* the pastors aosS