"TRESPASSING" BY MINISTERS
PRESBYTERY DISAPPROVES PRACTICE Unanimous disapproval of the P* 3 ®* tice of some ministers “trespassing'* the territory of others was expressed at the meeting of the Presbytery ® Christchurch yesterday morning. motion condemning the practice "Wy carried and referred to the Ecclesiasucal Committee to frame a definite *“*-, ing on the matter. ' . The fact that this interference resulted in his.losing contact witn family whom he hoped to bring 1“ the church prompted him to bring V" question before the Presbytery, a ni®K ber said. The occasion was the of an elderly woman, and some vx** ing had been aroused through anomp minister consenting to officiate out the knowledge of the reswj«“ minister. He asked that in baptists* weddings, and burials. _ outside musters be asked to refrain from Pt_ forming these ceremonies witnout •**" permission of the resident minister.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22893, 14 December 1939, Page 8
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