The Original Secession Magazine - 1868 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Sydney, and Dr. Hetherington, of Melbourne, and many others in the Union Churches in Australia, would spurn with contempt the being gazetted in the Blue-Books of... more » the Free Church, if this implied that they held the principles of the Free Church. Precisely the same ministers might be also gazetted in blue-books by the United Presbyterian Synod, and by the General Assembly of the Established Church. In looking at the Blue-Book of the Free Church in 1865, we see the name of the editor of The Testimony and his brethren. Their names are, however, omitted in the Colonial list of ministers in the Blue-Book of 1866. A touching appeal was published, as an advertisement, in the Edinburgh Daily Review, by the Rev. Mr. M'Culloch, of Ahalton, one of the Free Church minority in New South Wales, imploring the members of the approaching Assembly of 1866 to support the Free Church protesting minority in New South Wales. The appeal was in vain. The minority in Victoria in 1861 were cut off, amid the most violent excitement, rude attacks on some of the minority personally, and in particular on the Rev. Mr. Fraser, of Paisley, who supported their claims ; but in 1866, so far as we have heard, not a single word was uttered in the Free Church General Assembly in response to the able and touching appeal of Mr. M'Culloeh. We are fully convinced that, in many instances, this silence did not arise from indifference, but from heartlessness, and the melancholy conviction that, humanly speaking, all efforts to stem the latitudinarian flood were hopeless and vain. We would earnestly implore the Free Church to pause ere it be too late, and instead of drifting farther in a downward latitudirmrian course, to take up the position so ably yet briefly sketched in the extract we have quoted from The Sydney Testimon...« less