FREE CHURCHES
RIGHTS AT CORONATION DEMAND FOR EQUALITY LONDON. Sept. 22 An outspoken demand for equality between the Free Churches and the Anglican Church, which, the News Chronicle asserts, foreshadows pressure by members of the Free Churches to participate in the coronation pageantry, was made b3* the Rev. M. E. Aubrey, the new moderator, in an address at a meeting of the Federal Council of the Free Churches.
Mr. Aubrey declared that the Free Churches probably comprised half the regular churchgoers of Britain. Why should not they have an equal place with Anglicans in an expression of the deepest things of the people's spirit? he asked. Had not the day arrived when members of the Free Churches could say that they resented any attitude of tolerance or patronage, or a tendency to relegate them on national public occasions to insignificant places? Any assumption that Anglicanism represented in a special manner the mind of British Christians was untrue and arrogant.
The speaker appealed to Anglicans to realise that recognition was due to the Free Churches through their appointed representatives as much as to the Anglican Church.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22543, 7 October 1936, Page 13
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