Mount Helm Baptist Church v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
Fbom: tlie chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. ITeNey C. CoNN, Chancellor. The Mount Helm Baptist Church and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below; Jones and others, appel-lees, were defendants there.
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Fbom: tlie chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. ITeNey C. CoNN, Chancellor. The Mount Helm Baptist Church and others, appellants, were the complainants in the court below; Jones and others, appel-lees, were defendants there. The Mount Helm Baptist Church of Jackson, Miss., was organized by the colored people of the Baptist faith in that city prior to 1868. In January, 1868, after the church was organized, Thomas Helm and his wife conveyed to the trustees of the Mount Helm Baptist Church and their successors in office the lot on which the church now stands, it being a part of…
1Opinion of the Court
Whiteteld, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This court exercises no ecclesiastical jurisdiction. It accepts what the highest ecclesiastical authority in each church promulgates as the faith and practice of that church; that authority, under Baptist polity, being each separate Baptist church. If we were called on in this case to say for ourselves what Baptist faith or creed is, we should decline to do so, for so to do would be to exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction. This was a proposition settled in the case of Smith v. Charles, 24 So. Rep., 968, decided at last term. But the property…
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