PRESBYTERIAN UNION.
18 The subjects of a cortain king men tioned in 4 Gulliver's "Travela ' used to be terror-stricken when there appeared iin ordinance. alluding to hia Majesty's generosity;.anci. knew these.allusions portendei: some terrible- act of severity., , "in- like manner, we are always apprehensive of an outbreak of extreme theological violence wheQ. Scotch Presbyterians begin' to talk of "union." IT or ten "years two branches, the Free Church and. the United Presbyterians, have been tiating on the subject of amalgamation; a d barring a good, .'civil war, with plenty of carnage, nothing else could, in the same space of time, have pro-' duced so much heart-burning, rancour; and discord. This "union" is as remote as it ever was, and the general result has been decidedly disastrous in the interests of charity or brotherly love. "We shouM not hav.e thought that the example was at all cheering-or calculated to,provoke imitation. . But there are certain members of the Established Church and notably Sir i-iobert Anstruther—who wish to make overtures to the. Eree Church, hope that a.settlement of all differences; may be. carried out. Now that patron'-' age is abolishecl, they say that all substantial .distinctions between the Established and Free Churches have vanished, and. that. the raison: d'etre of the great secession r of 1843 exists no longer. The Eiee .Church leaders, however Br. Begg, a line-of-battle theologian, a host in himself, and a small minority excepted—think otherwise, and they have a little rudely snubbed the Old Kirk. The doctrines contained ,in : the judgment of the Law Lords in the . Marnoch case, and revealed- . again, in the Macm illan case, have never been withdrawn ; and this forms ail insuperable .obstacle to union. So far from desiring .to unite, the. Eree, Church has begun to agitate for disestablishments , Such is the outcome of the clever project -to strengthen. the-...Church by conciliating the.,Dissenters;r—' Examiner.'
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 308, 22 January 1875, Page 3
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310PRESBYTERIAN UNION. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 308, 22 January 1875, Page 3
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