CHURCH UNITY URGED
MINISTERS’ ASSOCIATION’S VIEWS The development of church union Mas further discussed at a meeting of the Auckland Ministers’ Association yesterday afternoon, when the Rev. IT. L. Richards and the Rev. G. Heigh way presented the Methodist and Congreprationalist points of view on the subject, in the course of addresses which they delivered. Discussing the Methodist attitude, the Rev. H. L. Richards pointed to the principles of Methodist Church government and the system for stationing ministers,under which every minister was guaranteed an appointment, and changes of ministers could be made at the end of any year. He asserted that the doctrines of all free church were, for all practical purposes, the same. Dealing with Congregationalism’s viewpoint, the Rev. G. Heighway said that in New Testament times all the churches were under the congregational government. Bach congregation managed its own affairs, and the doctrine of the church was simple—in essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 7
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