FREE CHURCHES
CLAIM FOR EQUALITY
■MODERATOR'S SPEECH
LONDON", Sept. 22
An outspoken demand for equality between the Free Churches and the Anglican Church, which the NcwsChronicde asserts, foreshadows pressure l.v members of the Free Churches to participate in the Coronation pageantry, was made by the ltcv. M. E. Aubrey, the new moderator, in an address at a nrecling of the Federal Council of: the Vrec Churches.
Mr., Aubrey declared that, the "Free Churches probably comprised halt' the regular churchgoers of Britain; Why should not they have an equal place with Anglicans in an expression of (.he deepest things of the people's spirit.' he asked. Had not the clay arrived when members of the Free Chun-lies could say thill 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.
He 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 10
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