Allen v. Roby

Citations

• 109 Miss. 107
• 67 So. 899

Syllabus

<p>1. Religious Societies. Pastor. Selection. Dismissal. Doctrine. Courts.</p> <p>Where the manual of the Baptist church on the subject of selecting pastors, declared that they shall be chosen by election as the free choice of the people in each individual church, and that each Baptist church was independent, a statement in the manual that in giving a call, the church usually appointed a committee, notice being given for several Sundays, and that a three-fourths vote of all present at the meeting should be deemed' essential to the call, coupled with the remark that no prudent man would accept a call on anything less, cannot be considered as prescribing the method of calling pastors, and a bare majority is sufficient.</p> <p>2. Religious Societies. Pastors. Dismissal.</p> <p>Where the relation of pastor and church is once formed, the relation can be dissolved by no external authority, civil or ecclesiastical, but by the mutual consent of the parties themselves.</p> <p>3. Religious Societies. Doctrines. Courts.</p> <p>The courts will not interfere to determine questions involving doctrines or government of a Baptist church.</p>