CHAOS AND ANARCHY.
LONDON, Jan. 26. In the City Temple, Holburn-via-duofc, E.C.% last night, the Rev. R. Moffat Gaiitrey, the newly elected president of the Metropolitan Free Church Federation, speaking of the reunion of the Churches, said'the divergence between the Roman and the Reformed conceptions of religion was so wide that it could not lie briged except by compromising conscience and sacrificing principle. “[ am for union, hut not at any price,” he declared. ‘‘lf I had the chance I would tell the bishops plainly that Free Church Ministers can no more afford to be reordained than tbev can to be remarried. Before many rears are past the battle for Proto-'
autism will have to be fought out again, and it is upon the Free Churches that the brunt of the battle must ultimately rest.” The Established Church, he continued, was honeycombed with revolt against the Reformation. Practices where our fathers had renounced wore being surreptitiously reintroduced - by persons, who. while receiving Protestant pay, did not scruple to subscribe to the programme and policy of Rome. The Established Church was i 1 a parlous plight: in doctrine it was a chaos, and in discipline an anarchy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1926, Page 1
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