CHANGE OF CREED.

Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 73

CHANGE OF CREED.

MINI ST ER S EM BRA (ING PRESBYTERIANISM. (From Our Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, August 13,

In order to give expression to certain pronounced opinions relating to the change of creed by ministers trying to come over to the Presbyterian Church, the Acting Moderator (the Rev. A. A. Murray) left the chair at last night’s meeting of the Auckland Presbytery.

Speaking to n motion for the admission of u Congregational minister wlio is now labouring in the country without the customary year’s probation, the Rev. Mr Murray urged that the Church should exercise extreme care in receiving a minister of another denomination. Because a man was a good Congregational or Methodist minister it did not follow that he would meet the requirements of the Presbyterian Church, and therefore Such applicants should be expected to satisfy the church authorities that their action was the result of a bona fide desire to change their creed, and not of personal convenience. Ife also urged that the stipulation for a year’s probation should not bo dispensed with, as some men might bo brilliant for a while and then fizzle out. Consideration of the application in question was adjourned in order that the applicant might come before the committee for examination.