ASKED TO RESIGN
A PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER. A QUESTION OF BAPTISM. ALSO SERVICES TN A THEATRE: ("Per Press Association. * WELLINGTON, September 4. AUCKLAND. September 4. Three members of the PresbyW.y xvaited on the R^v. A. A Murray. Minister of **St Andrews' Preshytcrum Church, anrl suggested thnt i< was his duty to. resign on account of having ben recently baptised by immersion at Gosprl- Hall. Parnell, by Rev Salter, a Bnntist minister. The Rev. Murrnv ronlied that ho hud no inrcnMon of resign inff. He was informed that, tnr* maitor . won'd bo nroueht before the next meeting of the Pr«hytery. Th Rev. Murray. inferviewe-d hr a pressman, sairl that the (I'v*tmio of the Presbvtorian Chufh ]>rovirlofl for sevCTal forms of baptism. incln^Miq 1 «nrimersion He exprossecl a preference for sprinkling. H« was. therefore, nuife vrithin his ricrhts. Ho had not vnlsilo' 1 . doctrine, nor had ho n"tod dishonourpblv. It seemed, that an attomnt. was bring. mad** to nut him out of tTie pro?bvterinn Q^n.roh.. ho^auso ho lia»> been rntirV'/'tinor R.uiuJav eveninjr. services at the TJaoli Th^im.
ASKED TO RESIGN
Grey River Argus, 5 September 1919, Page 3
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