London.

Manawatu Herald, 6 April 1899, Page 2

London.

The Rev D? J >seph A. RoMnson, "^orrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, in the course of a 8 rraon which he d.liv^red at St.. Margaret's Church, Lmdon, on E>s;er Sunday, created a sensation by hU outspoken criticism nf thf Athanasian Creed, odp of ha creed•*Rt forth in the Book of Cmimm Prayer, and -appointed for use on certain special occasion- 1 . The R^v gen I ram declared tb*t it was n>t a cived at all in th regu ar sense of the term, but a hymn fcna ■ had come down to us from a barb, ian age, embodying th i- joie nga of the bdlievn'3 in th^ Trinity over the Arian3. Now a-days portions of this so-called creed were nob endorsed- by many earnest Chri^tan-'. D R )bin<?on'B remarks met wi h the disapprobation of a number of the c e in 'he congregation, who hft the church while be was still in the pilpit, as a protest agaiQ3t hi-; iitrpranoeg. Mr Richard Chamberlain ex M.P., and brorher of the Secretary of State for the Colonies has just died, aged 59.