QUESTION OF THEOLOGY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14044, 26 July 1913, Page 5

QUESTION OF THEOLOGY.

A HERESY HUNT. THE'REV. G. JACKSON’S CASE. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright Received July 26. 8.40 a.in. LONDON, July 25 Tlie Wesleyan committee which is investigating the charges against the Rev, George Jackson adopted a report by 36 totes to 27 that Mr Jacksonf was in perfect general 1 accord with the Wesleyan doctrine, and evidently desired to re-state, in the light of ’ modern knowledge, the authority of the Holy Scriptures, but tho committee nevertheless regretted that Mr Jackson’s insufficiently guarded and unhappily expressed statements were liable to misunderstanding. ‘ (Something in tho nature of a heresy hunt has occupied the Wesleyan. Conference over tho appointment of the Rev. George Jackson as tutor in Pastoral Theology at Didsbury College. Mr Jackson, in 1905, as bead of the Methodist College at 'Jorontu, became embroiled in a controversy- with the older school of thought, anti his appointment to Didsbury College was questioned on the ground that his' views regarding tho Old Testament were contrary to Methodist teaching. Mr Jackson enunciated his views in a course of lectures in 1.909, wherein he expressed tho opinion that -Joses did not write the Pentateuch, and that Genesis was not a trustworthy account of the beginnings of human life and civilisation, or that the Book of Jonah was a sober record of plain fact.) t«2iMrtwv*e*e<iHßMe»ewaamHerMi