CHURCH RIVALRIES.
‘•'THE ATMOSPHERE POISONED.” CHRISTCHURCH. March 8. The annual assembly of the Congregational Union of New Zealand began last night. To do away with the “ disgraceful overlapping and waste of money and energy ” through church denominationalists in New Zealand, a conference of representatives of all denominations was urged by the Rev. Lionel ,B. Fletcher in his presidential address. He said: “Our denominational jealousies poison the atmosphere, prevent unity among the churches, and are forcing organised Christianity into a crisis which will eventually throw the whole machinery into the melting pot,”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 31
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