FRENCH PROTESTANTISM.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 99, 20 March 1875, Page 9

FRENCH PROTESTANTISM.

(From the London Tablet.J The end of the " Reformed Church of France " appeal's to be at hand. The effort of the late General Synod to secure the acceptation of even such a fundamental dogma of Christianity as the Divinity of the Saviour has so completely failed that 350,000 out of the total of 600,000 Trench Protestants have petitioned the Government, by their delegates, to authorise the formation of a fresh Protestant community on the basis of pure negation of all dogmas whatever, a sort of super-rationalized TJnitarianism in fact. Our contemporary, the ' Spectator,' observes with truth that " when more than 300,000 of the descendants of the Huguenots refuse to make even the most general declaration of belief in the Divinity of Christ, the resurrection and the ascension, a fundamental change has indeed come over French Protestantism. The change was always contained in the very principles of French as of every other kind of Protestantism. However, from heresy to infidelity the descent is logical and certain. Protestant Chritianity may now be said to have practically disappeared from every country of the world except the United Kingdom and some sections of society in North America. Even in England Christianity is fast fading away outside the inviolable bounds of the infallible Church. -^