CHANGE OF CREED,

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 14 August 1913, Page 5

CHANGE OF CREED,

PASSAGE IN A PRESBYTERY.

(By TelegraDh^—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, August 13. In' order to give explosion to certain pronounced. opinions relating to creed by ministers desiring to come <»er to the Presbyterian Chucch, the; ActrntModerator (the .Rev. A. A. Murray) leit. the dhair at last night a meeting of the A Shaking 1 for the admission of a. Congregational nunister, w" labouring in the country without the wistomarv years probation, tho l«?v. mt. Murray urged'that the eroise extreme care in recemiin a master of another denomination. .Because a man was a good Congregational or Methodist minister, it did not follow th.at lie would meet the requirements of tte msChurch, and, therefore, suoh apei should f>i> expected to satisfy toe authorities that their tho {result of 'ftioiKirifciWesi l,o their drecd;"iand"'iK>t , 'of personal!convenience. He also urged that tire stipVaWm for a year's probation sliould iiot bo dispensed..with, aa eome men an g;ht bo brilliant for a while and. then fizzle out. . Consideration of tho application was adjourned, in order that tho, applicant might come before tho committee tor examination.