Are these powers conferred on you by the state legislature or by some higher authority ?" "Oh, by a higher authority, I hope," said the rector very fervently.
Whereupon Mr.Skinyer left him without further questioning, the rector's brain being evidently unfit for the subject of corporation law.
On the other hand he got satisfaction from the Rev.Dr.Dumfarthing at once.
"The church of St.Osoph," said the minister, "is a perpetual trust, holding property as such under a general law of the state and able as such to be made the object of suit or distraint.

I speak with some assurance as I had occasion to enquire into the matter at the time when I was looking for guidance in regard to the call I had received to come here." * * * * * "It's a quite simple matter," Mr.Skinyer presently reported to Mr.
Fyshe.

"One of the churches is a perpetual trust, the other practically a state corporation.

Each has full control over its property provided nothing is done by either to infringe the purity of its doctrine." "Just what does that mean ?" asked Mr.Fyshe.
"It must maintain its doctrine absolutely pure.

Otherwise if certain of its trustees remain pure and the rest do not, those who stay pure are entitled to take the whole of the property.