CHURCH DISCIPLINE
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER SUSPENDED. By Telegraph—Pres« ABSoclation. Auckland, August 10. The-Auckland Presbytery to-night decided to suspend the Rev. A. A. Murray from exercising the rights' and privileges of a minister of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, and dissolved the pastoral tie between him and St. Andrew's Church. The committee which reported on the subject to the Presbytery stated that for nearly a year it had borne with Mr. Murray in the hope that he would lako the honourable course and resign, but Mr. Murray has determined to remain a minister of the Presbyterian Church in spite of his declared disbelief In her doctrine and practice in t)i£ matter of baptism, and of his refusal to baptise children of members of tho Church. Ho has thus forced his brethren to discipline'him,"
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 272, 11 August 1920, Page 5
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