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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17335, 25 November 1916, Page 12

Memories of a famous, heresy hunt are stirred by the report, that the Tbeistic Church is in difficulties, and oven in danger of dissolution Tim founder, of the church was the Rev Charles Voysey. who wav tried lor heretical teaching, find deprived of hi? living in the Church of England in 1871. after which he began to hold services in St George's Hall, and later in Swallow Street. Chapel. An e'oqutnt preacher, ho found numerous and influential followers, and in 1880 these formed themselves into the "Tbeistic Church." settled by an elaborate trust deed. The chapel in Swallow Street, which the Theists vacated a short while since, had in interesting history, having served in the seventeenth century as n French church, and from about 1770 till 1880 as a chapel of the Established Church of Scotland, the great I>r Chalmers being a frequent preacher thero.