Church Discipline.
Under the heading " Church Discipline m Scotland," the Pall Mall Gazette makes the following remarkable statement. We may observe that the practice described might be advantageously brought into plaj elsewhere. Says the Gazette, at the close of the service m the old church of Arbroath on Sunday morning, the Rev. Gordon J. Murray, assistant minister of the parish, read a judgment of the kirk session, to the effect that two ladies, members of the congregation, having been summoned to appear before the kirk session to answer to the sin and scandai of spreading infamous falsehoods and malicious letters, were, after proof had been led, unanimously found guilty of the same, and were suspended from the communion for twelve months from March 12, 1884, and thereafter until they should appear before the kirk session and havo the said siu and scandal removed. It was further stated that the public intimation of the sentence was by order of the kirk session. It is said that the two ladies, whose names and addresses were given m the public intimation read from the pulpit, deny Hie charge brought againat them. Both were present throughout the service and while ihe kirk session's sentence against them was being read.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 May 1884, Page 2
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205Church Discipline. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 146, 19 May 1884, Page 2
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