AN APOSTATE CHURCH.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13797, 6 February 1917, Page 8

AN APOSTATE CHURCH.

THE CASE OF PROFESSOR GEORGI JAOKSON. A METHODIST VERSION, Speaking i at Wesley Church on Sun(lay night, the Rev. J, A, Lochore mjiclo reference to one of Mr B. Billing's recent; lectures.. The speaker said that, in his anxiety to prove his contention that the great apostasy had set in, Mr Billing Mentally did .the Methodist Church in 'Britain a ver.y'great wrong and badly-misrepresented an honoured professor of that' Church,. Professor George Jackson, Professor- Jackson's position was, only caricatured by Mr Billing, ile .was a man who accepted and taught all the great doctrin'es of the faith without any exception. One of .his greatest works. consisted in l;lie building up of the great Edinburgh; Central .Mission, to which he added over 1000 .members; conversions taking ..place every Sunday , during -his nineteen years' ministry; In the midst of the "heresy hunt,' 5 Professor Jackson wentto conduct 'the anniversary seivices in lus old mission, and' thore )mc, eleven adult, conversions "on that. Sunday, . Such' was- the'man who was hold up as- apostate, in liis teaching. Tho fcouthoi n .Cioss oi January 26th quoted jiin American -paper which said: "The gi cat English, preachers are nsmg to the-needs:;of. the and ■ tlion ret.eiled approvingly to '.three mon,. viz:, Pis lainpbell:Morgan and J. D. Jones, iwd,, Professor George. Jackson, /Die statemenlj that (he Methodist C'onfei i e ;" ee i bj-an overn-holimng.majority;-sup-' poi ted hat was given -by. 'Mr Billing ■is pin poi ting to be I'iofeusoi Jack son's, position, was quite falso. Tlie Con-, feience bj an overulujlnung majoiity lefiised {o displace Pi ofessoi Jackson hom 111$ clian of theolog}—a vtiij diffcient inattoi Mi Jjochoie said that, aftei giViug tho tdiegoing' paiticilars leg.udmg the Methodist Qhuich and ,tho position,of Professor Jackson, nothing fmthei need Tj^said, l ,/ 4 ' ', *