PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
A 3IOMENTOUS SESSION.
x [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 3.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church has opened. It is momentous for two reasons: Firstly, on account of proposals to admit women to eldership, and to authorise women of gifts and consecration to give addresses in the churches; and secondly, because the Archbishop of York addressed the Assembly and submitted the Bishops' Lambeth appeal in favour of re-union. The, Archbishop repudiated the idea of absorbing the free churches, and said the Bishops thought the free churches could accept the Nicene creed and the Communion , sacrament, leaving the Communion 'of the ministry as the most difficult field to b e explored.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1808, 5 May 1921, Page 5
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