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TROUBLE IN A CHURCH SEQUEL TO COURT CASE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 13. There has been an extraordinary sequel to an award of the Consistory Court at Durham last week, which ordered the removal of certain articles from a church, of which 600 parishioners complained on the ground that they were Romanist. Tho Rev. E. A. Merry-Weather, from tho pulpit of Pelton Church, Chester-le-streqt, on Sunday announced tho excommunication of two men and one woman who gave evidence at the Consistory Court. Mr Merry-Weather said: “We cannot go on being disturbed by these godless people. I shall expel them from the congregation for three years, and 1 ask all Christian people to treat them as heathens and publicans. They are denied all the rights and privileges of the sacraments of the church.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20614, 14 October 1930, Page 9
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136EXPELLED BY MINISTER Evening Star, Issue 20614, 14 October 1930, Page 9
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