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New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 475, 2 November 1850, Page 2

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A. Meeting was held on Wednesday evening last, in Mr. M'lntyre's new school room, Alhert-itreet, called by Mr. A.Wright, purporting to be a meeting of the Members of the Free Pi esbytemns of Auckland. The business of the evening commenced by Mr. Wrights proposing that Mr. J. George take the Chair. The Chairman requested Mr. Stevens to engage in prayer. Mr. Vaile then moved that the Address (which appeared in the newspapers as an advertisement) be adoptedby this meeting, and sent to the Edinburgh Presbytery of the free Church of Scotland. Mr. Vaile earnestly urged all present" to act as Presbyterians, to act for themselves, and nol delegate their power to any party of,inen." He contended that Mr. Fanton was qu're correct in acting as he hud done. As an act of schism had been committed, and he was prepared to yto\* that ihe paragraph, on wh'ch so much stress was laid in this morning's newspaper, of "secret perfidy and open assault" was perfectly true ; he said he was sorry to mention the names of individuals, but on this occasion he could not avoid doing so ; he said Mr. Shepherd had revealed the seciets of the cession, and Mr. Forsaith had assailed Mr. Fanton in (he Church, at the Congregatinnul Meeting, held on the 12lh of August, in producing letters which were strictly private. He entered into a long explanation with regard to Mr. Inglis, and a call he (Mr. Inglis) had from the people of the Tamaki. And that the office-bearers were wrong in procuring the aid of the Weileyans, a party holding doctrines wholly at variance with those held by Presbyterians, and said, " You believe in particular redemption, they, the Wesley ans, in universal redemption," and asserted that the assistance of the Wesleyans was procured without Mr. Panton's knowledge or concurrence. Mr. Lowe heie asked Mr. Vaile how he had now become such a friend of Mr. Panton's, when he (Mr. V) was the first person in Auckland that proposed to him to retain Mr. Inglis here, and siid he would give £[0 towards the erection of a church for Mr. Inglis, and asked what he (Mr. L) would give. Mr. Vaile said he could answer this question, and enteied into a long explanation about a conversation which he had had with Messrs, Clark and Hay, which had no connection with the subject now before the meeting. Mr. Clark rose and said, when he came to the meeting he did nol intend to say one word, but as Mr. Vaile had mentioned his name, he must say what Mr. Vaile said was not true. Mr. VV, M'lntosh seconded Mr. Vaile's resolution, which being put by the Chairman to the meeting, was lost by a large majority. Mr. W. M'Kenzie roae and said, lie would beg leave to aik if this was a meeting of seceders from the Free Presbyterian Church of Auckland. {Someone replied " No.") " Then if you declare yourselves ihe Free Presbyterian Church of Auckland, connected with the building, I protest against this meeting, as irregular and unnecessary, and incompetent to enter into any business connected with that body. At the last meeting held in the Church, previous to Mr. Panton's departure, the whole of the officebearers who had been suspended by Mr. Panton, had, by the voice of the whole meeting been replaced in their furmer position, with full power to carry on the business of the Church as formerly, and supply the pulpit with preachers, after Mr. Panton's departure, in the best manner they could ; therefore this meeting is irregular." Mr. M'Kenzie then cautioned the meeting from being led ! attray by the prevented minds of those who called this meeting, but to wait with patience for a week or two, when a statement of the whole affair, from first to last, would be published, and then they would have an opportunity of judging for themselves. Mr. A. Bluck then said that the office-bearers bad neglected their duty, in that they had never called a meeting or taken the necessary steps to secure a minister for the Church. Mr. V*ile said they had invited WesJeyani to preach Arminianism to them. Mr. M'Kenzie in reply, said that Mr. Buddie (in the absence of the General Superintendent) had been ap« plied to, but would not consent before consulting Mr. Fanton, which he did ; when Mr. Panton cordially accepted Mr. Buddies kind compliance with the re* quest made to him. Messrs. M'lntosh and Wright denied the truth of this statement, and aiked Mr. M'Kenzie if he could show it in blnck and white. Mr. M'Kenzie indignantly replied and asked the meeting if a simple statement of one Christian Minister to another, was not to be believed —but mmt have a legal document to prove it ? were they to treat each other with the sucpicion which a band ot robbers would despise ! No ! But he had sufficient proof, if proof were required ; Mr. Whytlaw, who was present during the inteiview, would prove Ins statement, and it would shortly be attested iv the printed statement alluded to. Mr. M'Kenzie maintained that the Wesleyan M nuten deserved the warmest thanks for their kindness in so fiankly coming forward to supply the vacant pulpit ; they deserved a very different return than some in this room seemed desirous to give them. Every one knew that they bad iheir hands full of their own work, and yet they promptly conseuttd to do as much as lay in their power to supply our people with the Gcipel, till such Mine as we cou'd secure a minuter of our own. It as not necessaiy that any peculiar views should be "irought forwarJ, as they had nothing to do with politic I Christians, that contemptible compound of hypocrisy, cant, and bigotiy. Mr. Stevms roae and said, that from the remarks he had heard, he had come to the conclusion, that the person who could associate with all the various denominations of Cnristians, were men of no religion at all. He therefore concluded that Mr. M'Kenzie had no religion • (after several other similar remarks, he tat dow°n amidst the hisses of almost all present.) Mr. Clark said, he with many othen roust be included amongst the persons Mr. Stevens spoke of, as he heartily concurred ia all Mr# M'Kenzie had said.