| Show A dt The rhe II t II I cli h I loll I on 1 a of ot Lords J orila linn M roil ren an nil a Ii which ulm ich ichha has ban ha e vuu eed ed much In III I I I church chinch it elicits II fly It II tho the United Tree Free Church if It toni hilI been beell declared nut not en entitled titled to certain church property The rime Kree ree Church of uC came In tn Into Into to tu In Ill when s hell no members front thu tho c church The Tue libya rapidly tile Iho church hurch property e UlIn cd rd at lit the value alue of oC Tha United chirch reh Wan In i formed In 1317 1847 by hy II tho the union of ot curtain certain earlier i In Iii 1000 1200 these two churches the tho United Kite Iee Ii tee Church of at Scotland aft the tile Unit w ad fl Church united 1 All the tue mInisters minister and con congregations of at the wing entered red Into Inlo tho time movement nail and so lit did all ull of ot Free Freo ret Church except I ministers milliliters It a Very tory ory small How over thelia d to III be bo tho hue and haVe a IL aright right to time the properly the tha inn by II l with the tho Presbyter luau hid hall altered the thue doctrinal basis In other oIlier words The courts were Wre appealed to on no of at the property Involved The Tho I with their congregations claimed that they alone composed tho the Free Pree Church of oC and und were verc en on entitled entItled titled to all 1111 tho time property properly belonging b to tho the church before beCore the union un 1011 The Tha fh low lots lower loller er or courts decided against g their claim cl but hut the House of or lord which huts has foal final jurisdiction Jon decided In their favor vor on the ground that the tho new church had bad changed Its 1111 doctrinal Pr Is rife rite as n to what effect this ns ril re I decision will have It H is Js pro pre predicted ted that It will III arouse every eer non nonconformist conformist c church In England 1 to the protection of ot Itself tar for If It the decision stands It will put Individual churches church and amid denominations denomination which are consid considering ering the question of at union with other othor I bodies of oC the tIme venue faith fluid and practice at lit tile the mercy of ot 11 II single lingle III In Hi whoso rights to all the prop property erty orty would be us as secure as 05 n those tholo of oC the The decision In Is I another Illustration Jon of ot the folly fOil of oC submitting ecclesiastical questions question to tho the judgment of oC secular bodies b This Thin blunder proved fatal to 10 the primitive whon In the Iho year 32 they permitted a u pagan emperor to 10 upon the question of ot And yet tl It has Iuan often oUen been repented repeated One question rlue lIon suggests Itself If Jt the union with lIh another lb religious body bOIl Orals forms n a 1 change of at doctrinal does floes rot not separation from Crom a 11 religious body form torm such each a II change It If so MO i what hul body hod Is in there In nil all Christendom except tho time Saints that thul has not changed 1111 doctrinal IM bl sin lH Hut If It they the nil have changed their doctrinal battle where then tItan IH In accord accordIng lug Ing to 10 the decision of ot tho the house of ot Loris Lords tho Iho original church 7 |
