NEW IRISH CHURCH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20150, 19 May 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW IRISH CHURCH

OPPONENTS OF MODERNISM A new sect, known as the Irish Evangelical Church, has been founded in the North of Ireland, with headquarters at Belfast. It consists of seceders from the Irish Presbyterian Church, and is led by the Rev. James Hunter, former minister of Knock Church, Belfast, who took a prominent part in the recent heresy trial at the General Assembly. The seceders allege that the Presbyterian Church has gone over to Modernism, and at a meeting of delegates from various districts, Air Hunter said that Alodcrnism was the greatest lie of the Devil, and all Modernists were propping up the Devil’s lie. Air W. J. Grier, a licentiate of the Belfast Presbytery, who also spoke, said that when he finished in the Assembly’s College two years ago he found no open door, although many pulpits were vacant. lie could not worship God in Egypt, .'.nd the World of God would not nerniit him to bow in the Temple of Rimmon. They had come out. of the church because they cou.d not do any good there. The new body is at present without any churches, but in various districts of Belfast, small congregations are meeting in private houses and halls-