UNION OF CHURCHES.
DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY* ,'. . (Pib United Pmss Assochtioh.) ; ■ ■'~ , AUCKLAND, November 25,, ■' Expressing his views upon a letter from. ; tho Anglican Church proposing Church union, a Presbyterian minister (Rev,' A- . Murray, of St. Andrew's Church) eaidi lie; did not think there was the slightest hope of union so long as there existed » leaning towards Ritualism in the liAnglican Church. This was the great bar to'unity,," The Presbyterian General A&era%' haoV ' he said, so despaired of union'that it'had: disbanded the committee set up to confer Iwith other church committees on tho - question. Union must be on "evangelical' lines.- • ■ '•■ ■ A Methodist opinion, voiced by'the Bey* ' George Bond (chairman of the Methodist' Synod), was that a fraternal.spirit was v. first necessary. This was the 'difficulty! rather than denominationaiism. Fraternity.' might culminatejsn organic union, but the) time for the latter had not yet oonX : O
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14381, 26 November 1908, Page 7
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