TOSSING FOR RELIGION.
A religious difficulty of a rather embarrassing kind has (says the St James Gazette) lately arisen at Wukegan, in the United States. A wedding took place there the other day ; the bridegi'oom being a Baptist and the bride a Methodist. They had agreed that immediately after the ceremony they would decide by a "toss up" which would embrace the other's persuasion. The officiating minister was requested accordingly to toss up a cent as soon as he had concluded the service. The reverend gentleman declined, on the ground that, being himself a Methodist, he might in the event of the bride winning, be accused of not having "tossed fair." The bride herself final'y threw up the coin, and lost. When she went to join the Baptists, however, they rejected her because she did not believe in " close communion." This displeased the husband who went over in a huff with his wife to the Methodists. The affair has created such strong feeling among members of both pei'suasions at Waukegan, Borne maintaining that the bride, having lost the toss, was bound in honor to join the Baptists under any circumstances, while others hold out that the course pursued by the young couple is the only one which they could have adopted with any sense of dignity and self-respect.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3029, 11 March 1881, Page 4
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