ACCESSION OATH.

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ACCESSION OATH.

-4 AGAINST "ANY ALTERATION." Bj TelosT«D»i-Preis Association—CoDyrlobl London, June 7. Three thousand members of the Church Association held a demonstration against any alteration in the Accession Oath. Lord Kinnaird (a prominent Low Churchman) presided over the gathering. [The Church Association was instituted in 1865, "to maintain the principles and doctrines established at the Reformation, and to preserve tho purity of Protestant worship in the Church of England;, to resist all innovations in the order of the services as prescribed by the joint authority of the Church and State, all attempts to restore tho use of the confessional, and every exerciso of that priestly authority which was put down at the Reformation." The association has formed a Protestant electoral organisation in more than half tho Parliamentary boroughs and divisions in England.] AUSTRALASIAN METHODISTS. Adelaide, June 8. The Australasian Methodist Conference resolved against any alteration of the Accession Oath which would relax in any degree the safeguards ensuring the Protestant succession to The Throne, or whichj would permit tho oath and declaration to 1» understood in any other form than their obviously and ordinarily understood meaning.