In 1947, when I was put on trial by The Presbyterian Church in
Canada for preaching on the Ecumenical Movement, the word
ecumenical was little known and hardly used by the news media. 
Since that time the Ecumenical Church has become a reality and is
headline news from week to week.

     The dream of a worldwide church was first presented in 1910 at the
World Conference on Missionary Cooperation at Edinburgh.  The
movement finally became recognized in 1944 with the formation of the
World Council of Churches.  From 1944-1961 this Council was of
interest primarily to liberal Protestant denominations.  But in
November of 1961 when the World Council met at New Delhi there
were Roman Catholic observers present for the first time.

     The first Ecumenical Council was called by Pope John and
re-called by Pope Paul.  This was an invitation "to the Christian
brothers, separated from its perfect unity, in a way to make attractive,
easy, and joyous to them the sincere recomposition in truth and
charity, of the mystic body of the sole Catholic Church."  This
condition for unity was that the separated Protestant brothers return to
the sole Catholic Church.

     The Bible teaches clearly that, following the rapture, this
Ecumenical Church will e the church of Antichrist, the church of the
Great Tribulation period.  It will be a totally apostate church. 
     A careful study of the Bible will show us how this corruption had
already begun to take place in the early church.  In the church at
Jerusalem there were deceivers like Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:2). 
In the Galatian churches false teachers were brought in unawares to
lead the people away from the liberty which they had in Christ to the
bondage of the law (Gal. 1:8; 3:1; 5:7-9).  The church at Colosse was
beset by philosophy and rationalism which beguiled the saints (Col.
2:8-20).

     The early church had to deal with false teachers, grievous wolves,
who came in from without to devour the flock (Acts 20:29).  The
mystery of iniquity was at work in Paul's day (2 Thess. 2:7).  He also
warned the early church in 2 Timothy 3:13:  "But evil men and
seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." 
     The 7 churches of Revelation 2-3 speak not only of the falling away
of those 7 local churches, but they also portray the historical
development of the Church right up to the time of the rapture.  The
church of Laodicea, which is the professing church before the rapture,
finds Christ outside trying to get in:  "Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to
him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20). 
     The Scriptures clearly show that the professing church, or what is
called Christendom, will steadily increase in departure from God and
His Word by inward corruption and outward conformity to the world. 
But the apostasy cannot reach its height until after the rapture.  The
restraining power of the Holy Spirit (2 Thess 2:6-7) still continues, and
the full apostasy of the Ecumenical Church and the manifestation of
the Antichrist cannot take place.

     The next great event in this process is the rapture of the Church at
the return of Christ:  "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1
Thess. 4:16,17).

     Now with the true Church taken by her Lord, "the salt of the earth"
(Matt. 5:13) with its preserving quality shall be gone, and the world
will soon go to corruption.  The "light of the world" (Matt. 5:14) will
be gone from the world and great spiritual darkness will set in.  With
the saints gone to be with their risen Lord, the apostate church, which
will still bear Christ's Name, will reach its climax under the rise and
revelation of Antichrist.

     The last picture that the Bible gives of this apostate Christianity is
found in Revelation Chapters 13-18.  We find a merger of all religions
under one great head in chapter 13.  There will be two Devil-inspired
men who will take over the rule of the earth after the rapture of the
Church.  The beast of Revelation 13:1-10 is Antichrist.  Notice that
this whole chapter deals with the worship of this man by the people. 
The whole centre of attention in our world today is on man.  They tell
us that the God of our fathers, and the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ is dead.  The god whom they tell us is alive is found in
man's response towards others, preparing the way for the worship of
the man of Revelation 13.  Verses 4, 8, 12 and 15 all speak of worship
but it will be the worship of the Antichrist.  We have a good example
of this in the days of Nebuchadnezzar when all the people fell down to
worship the image.

     The Ecumenical Church is clearly explained in Rev. 17:1:  "And
there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and
talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the
judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters." 
     In the Book of Revelation the figure of a woman is used
symbolically of religion at least four times: Jezebel represents the
pagan idolatry of the past, (20:20); the woman clothed with the sun
represents the true Church (19: 7,8; 21:9); the whore of 17:1
represents the Ecumenical Church of the Great Tribulation Period. 
     It is not surprising that the Bible uses the word whore or harlot to
represent apostate Christendom.  Throughout parts of the Old
Testament God condemned Israel for spiritual harlotry.  A church
which calls itself Christian and yet courts alliance with the godless
system of this world commits spiritual adultery.  James 4:4 says:  "Ye
adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God?"

     In revelation 17 we find the whore sitting upon many waters.  Verse
15 tells us that the waters are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and
tongues, so she has worldwide influence.  This is the Ecumenical
Church.

     Verse 2: "With whom the kings of the earth have committed
fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk
with the wine of her fornication."  The great religious sin was
fornication which God mentions in relation to Israel in Jeremiah
3:2,3,9 and in Ezekiel 16-23 at least 20 times.

     Verse 3 speaks of Antichrist supporting the harlot church for his
own advantage.  The wealth of this woman is described in verse 4. 
Verse 5 speaks of "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH."  Babylon is the culmination of all the religious efforts of
man and is the last stage of apostate Christendom.

     In Revelation 17:16-18 we find Antichrist turning against the
Ecumenical Church, making her desolate and naked and burning her
with fire.  Then in chapter 18: 1,2 we find the further collapse of this
church by direct judgment from heaven.  "Babylon the great is fallen,
is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every
foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." 
     What are believers to do with regards to the Ecumenical
Movement?  The answer is found in Revelation 18:4: "And I heard
another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." 
The teaching of modern neo-evangelicals is that we are to unite with
all manner of birds and show a spirit of unity to a godless world.  God
says, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins."


      BILL MILNER AT ECUMENICAL SERVICE

     On August 3, 1975, in Moncton, an Ecumenical Service was held
with well-known Gospel singer Bill Milner featured as the special
soloist.  Taking part was a United Church preacher, two Roman
Catholic Priests, the Gospel Quartet and leader from the Salvation
Army of Barrington Street, Halifax, and Bill Milner.  Many years ago
we sponsored a record of Bill Milner and have always been thankful
for his ministry of music.  It is easier to go along with the crowd today
and sell records than it is to stand for the faith of our fathers even if we
have to stand alone and suffer for our Lord.  These Ecumenical
Services are preparing the way for the Antichrist world-religious
system of the Tribulation Period and we want nothing to do with it. 
         CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

     The Canadian Council of Churches met in Glace Bay, N.S., from
April 25-29.  The primary purpose of this council is to encourage
ecumenical understanding and action across Canada.  It is a part of the
World Council of Churches.  Member bodies of the CCC include:
Anglican Church of Canada, Armenian Church of Canada, Baptist
Federation of Canada (The United Baptist Churches of the Maritimes
belong to the Baptist Federation of Canada), Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ), Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Presbyterian,
reformed Church of America, religious Society of Friends, Salvation
Army, and the United Church of Canada.

        WELL KNOWN PENTECOSTAL PASTOR
        SAYS CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT WILL
         USHER IN ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT

          Saturday, January 17, 1976

          THE CHRONICLE-HERALD

THE MAIL-STAR

     By BETSY CHAMBERS
     Staff Reporter

     Faith Tabernacle's Rev. Ralph Rutledge, of Halifax, has been
bucking international trends in the Christian church as a matter of
course for the past seven years, packing near-overflow crowds into
every service he has held in the city.
     His congregation is ever-growing; the physical plant of his church
will be doubled in February; and his popularity is so great from
preaching on television and in the pulpit that some members of the
congregation drive 100 miles to hear him speak on Sundays.      Since
the decline in church attendance, many church leaders publicly insist
it's quality, not quantity, they are interested in, but not a few ministers
wonder about Mr. Rutledge's aptitude in the numbers game.
     This weekend will be the last to view his drawing power in Halifax
before he leaves Monday for Toronto's Queensway Cathedral, one of
the largest Protestant churches in Canada.

     He says his congregation represents a microcosm of society.  "I
often see a woman with a plain cloth coat standing next to a woman
dressed in mink."
     Perhaps more interesting, he says, almost every denomination in the
city is usually represented, including Catholics, at his services.     
Dissatisfaction with worship patterns in their own churches, he says, is
partially responsible for attendance, but it was also apparent the
charismatic renewal was having an impact on mainline church
attitudes to Pentecostalism.
     After feeling polarized for a number of years, he says, "we've come
together in many areas, not in the traditions of the church, but in the
work of the Holy Spirit, where there is a fellowship."      The
charismatic movement, he says is mainly responsible for the shift in
attitude.  So-called gifts of prophecy, tongues, healing and others have
become common to those in the movement, which, until recent times in
the modern age, have been considered almost peculiar to
Pentecostalism.
     The results, he says, are "a greater openness to God and a greater
appreciation for one another ecumenically.  The
denominational barriers are really crumbling.  A Roman Catholic
woman told me at a service, "I couldn't believe I'd ever be here."  It
(the charismatic renewal) has become a melting pot of all
denominations."
     The movement, which is now world-wide, he says, is unique in the
history of spiritual renewals, because it is not causing adherents to
leave their churches to create a new denomination.
     His prediction is that the movement is "just a beginning," that it will
intensify in all Christian faiths and bring together the true body of
Christ in the Holy Spirit in an ecumenical movement.

     "It will not be an ecumenical movement organized by church
leaders.  The church leaders are trying to come together on common
ground, but it is not going to happen that way.  There will be a strong
organized church, but it will not have the power of God in it.  The
mainline churches will remain, but they will not have the works of the
Holy Spirit in them.  It will be in the ecumenical movement.  The
power of the Holy Spirit is bringing God's people together from all
denominations.  If the movement were to be organized by another
system, it would not be held together by the spirit of God.  This is
where they are going astray.  They are since but.."

                EDITOR'S NOTE

     What saith the Scripture concerning the Ecumenical
Movement?  It is clearly taught in the Word of God that after the
Rapture of the true Church by our Lord Jesus Christ the Great
Tribulation will begin.  During this awful period there will be one
worldwide religious system, headed up by the Roman Catholic
Church, over which the Antichrist will have full control.  The
Ecumenical Movement of our day is setting the stage for this great
prophetical event.

     We read of this one world religious system in Revelation 13:8: 
"And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (Antichrist)." 
Chapter 17:3-6 gives a picture of Rome:  "And I saw a woman sit
upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having
seven heads and ten horns.  And the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of
her fornication:  And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.  And I saw
the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus."

     The Antichrist finally turns on this apostate church:  "Babylon the
great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the
hold of every foul spirit."  Hear God's cry: "Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of
her plagues."  (Read Revelation 18:2-4).

     Once a Roman Catholic is saved it is absolutely impossible for him
to remain within the Roman Catholic Church.  How can a truly born
again Christian filled with the spirit, speak in tongues, accept the
Mass, worship Mary, go to confession, pay for Masses and pray for the
dead?

     The NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER carried the story
of the Seventh International Conference on Charismatic Renewal in
Notre Dame University.  It reported that when a speaker pledged
absolute loyalty to the Pope, 25,000 participants rose to their feet,
cheering, applauding, and rocking the stadium.  "When Cardinal
Suenens said, 'The secret is our unity with Mary, the Mother of God,'
again the crowd rose with spontaneous cheers."  Cardinal Suenens also
urged Catholic Charismatics to "keep intact Catholic allegiance to
Mary and Peter (Pope)."  At a Mass he called Mary "the first
charismatic Christian"  and the "heart of the Charismatic Church." 
     This makes it clear that the Charismatic Movement is of another
spirit other than the Spirit of God.  How could such confusion be
likened to the baptism of the Holy Spirit when all of these
blasphemous doctrines of the Roman Church are against God and His
Word?

     When Protestant preachers teach that Roman Catholics can have the
baptism of the Holy Spirit and stay in their own church, then the time
has come for the ordinary believer to take a stand alone on the true
foundation, the Word of God!

     What is the Mass?  One writer, with the approval of the Roman
Catholic Church, said:  "The sacrifice of Christ in the Mass makes the
church to stand alone as the one unique, divinely appointed authority
to lead men back to God."  This teaches that Christ actually becomes
present in the Mass and that this bloodless sacrifice is the same as
Calvary.

     In his little booklet, NOW HEAR OUR SIDE, Rev. John J. Walde
wrote:  "During the sacrifice of the Mass Christ actually becomes
present.  Even as at the Last Supper, so in each Mass, bread and wine
are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ.  And when Christ is
present it is He who then offers anew the Sacrifice of Calvary.  This is
why the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Calvary are one and
the same sacrifice."

     It is repeated at least seven times in Hebrews chapters 7-10 that the
sacrifice of Christ was offered ONCE FOR ALL.  God's Word says
plainly, "Nor yet that He should offer himself often, as the high priest
entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others; (and as
the Catholic priests affirm in the Masses)  For then must He often have
suffered since the foundation of the world: but NOW ONCE hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself"  (Heb. 9:25,26). 
Through the ONE SACRIFICE He obtained "eternal redemption for
us"  (Heb. 9:12).  The Holy Spirit has promised to lead us into this
truth, not against it.

     Yet Pastor Rutledge and a host of other Charismatic preachers tell
us that the Holy Spirit is at work in the Roman Catholic Church. 
Someone is wrong.  The Bible says,  "Beloved, believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits whether they are of God..."  (1 John 4:1). 
     There was a time when believers stood by the plain teaching of the
Bible.  Many of these same Christians used to attend "Protestant"
meetings to protest the blasphemy of Rome in relation to the Mass, the
worship of Mary, the confessional, prayers for the dead, etc., but not
any longer!  Today they go by their emotions and believe anything,
even though it be contrary to the Word of God.

     How can Roman Catholics be filled with the Spirit and give
allegiance to the Pope?  How could any believer acknowledge any
authority for the Pope?  Actually he is an antichrist.  Papal infallibility
means, "When the Pope in his official capacity, with the fullness of his
authority, as successor of St. Peter and head of the Church on earth,
proclaims a doctrine of faith or morals binding on the whole Church,
he is preserved from error."  Is this what believers accept?  Do they
now relate the words of the Pope with the Word of God?  What has
come over the Church?  Not the presence and power of God the Holy
Spirit who has promised to lead us into all truth (John 16:13). 
     The Charismatic Movement is doing more to bring Roman
Catholics and other liberal denominations into the Ecumenical
Movement than any other force in our day.  How sad it is to find so
many believers following preachers who have departed from the truth
of God's Word.  We have always felt that if enough individual
Christians had taken a courageous stand on the Word of God, much of
the confusion we see today could have been avoided.  Truth mixed
with error is always dangerous.

     Do we not love Roman Catholics?  Of course we do!  We love
Protestants and Catholics alike.  We also love the heathen with their
false religions.  We love Mohammedans but their worship is wrong for
they follow a dead saviour.  The Bible alone is our authority.  It
teaches that Christ, through His Blood-atoning Cross work, is the only
way into Heaven.  All other ways lead to Hell and the Lake of Fire.  It
is totally wrong to accept people of other religious beliefs as brothers
in Christ.  Protestants who are saved ought to leave their apostate
denominations and worship in a church that upholds the Word of God. 
Roman Catholics, when saved, also ought to renounce their former
religious ties and seek true Christian fellowship in a fundamental Bible
Church.


 SALVATION ARMY COMMISSIONS ROMAN CATHOLIC AS
HONOURARY CAPTAIN.  IS THIS WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO RAISE
MONEY?

     The "Love" Ministry of Clinton White

     It was indeed a shocking letter.  We refer to the Anniversary Letter
of "world Radio Mission."  Surely believers in New England are not
going to be moved by such an anti-Bible attitude towards truth and
doctrine.

     Clinton White, the pastor, says this:  "The lord showed me He
would pour out His Spirit.  People from all walks of life would get
together.  Protestants and Catholics, Baptists and Pentecostals, Advent
Christians and Nazarenes would work side by side. If some Christians
had grown so cold they couldn't be moved from their rigid positions
then God would bypass them and move upon others.  We have seen
this come to pass.  The Lord showed me that He would put people
together here, in New england, in a most unique and unusual
evangelistic method that would be used to reach thousands.  We have
seen this come to pass in 'Telephone Time.'"

     He also says, "Now you know why God blesses this broadcast.  It
has happened because Christians with doctrinal differences have put
them aside in favour of love and unity."

     What is real Biblical love?  How is it manifested?  Did not the early
church leader, Athanasius, demonstrate Christian love when he
stubbornly contested for the doctrine of the deity of Christ??  Did not
love motivate Martin Luther when he stood up against all of
Romanism for the Bible way of salvation,  "The just shall live by
faith"?  Did not John Wesley evidence love when he chose to preach
on a graveyard tombstone rather than conform to the dictates of men? 
     The modern notion of love that is prevalent on "Telephone Time"
would brand all of these men as disrupters of the peace, strangers to
genuine love for the brethren.  It is no longer considered fashionable to
contend earnestly for the faith or to insist upon a clear-cut doctrinal
statement.  It is considered bad taste to contest error, to call attention to
false teaching in Romanism, the soul-sleep and no-Hell doctrine of
Adventism, or the many compromises of Gordon-Cornell College, and
the neo-evangelical compromises all over New England.

     Vance Havner makes the issue very clear in writing on "The
Forgotten Anathema."  He said,  "Some Christians who once
championed sound doctrine beat a retreat once in a while and from
stratospheric heights announce that they do not 'stoop to controversy'. 
When a man contends for the faith in New Testament style he does not
stoop.  Contending for the faith is not easy.  It is not pleasant business. 
It has many perils.  It is a thankless job.  And it is highly unpopular in
this age of moral fogs and spiritual twilights.  It is a day of diplomats,
not prophets.  It is nicer to be an appeaser than an opposer.  It is the
day of Erasmus, not Luther; the day of Gamaliel, not Paul." 
     To love is to obey God's Word.  "And this is love, that we walk
after His commandments"  (2 John 6).  Love's allegiance is first to the
Divine Commander.  Love is occupied with His commandments.  How
can there be soul-winning fellowship with Roman Catholic's whose
doctrine of salvation is utterly opposed to the Bible way of salvation. 
Either it is by the Mass (the wafer) or by the blood.  There is no
salvation inside a Catholic Church.  How can we work side by side
with people who deny our Lord through the Mass, through prayers to
the Virgin Mary, through the Confessional, through prayers for the
dead, and other false dogmas.

     While new-evangelicals encourage love apart from the truth, the
Bible unites both.  Love springs from truth.  Love centres around the
truth of the Bible.  Love "rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the
truth"  (1 Corinthians 13:6).

     Not only does love rejoice in the truth, but love also "speaks the
truth"  (Ephesians 4:15).  New-Evangelicals, on the plea of
maintaining love and unity, withhold truth which needs to be spoken. 
They fear they will lose the friendship of brethren and the support for
their ministry.

     Clinton White would not think of warning Pentecostals of the false
movement among Roman Catholic priests and people who are
receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit and are speaking in tongues
with the result that they are enjoying the Mass more and more.  The
Mass itself is an abomination to the finished Cross-work of Christ
because any spirit that helps one to appreciate and enjoy the mass
more, is not of God.  We praise God that many Pentecostals are seeing
the false movement among Catholics today.

     The Bible makes it clear that sound doctrine is to be embraced and
defended in a spirit of love:  "Hold fast the form of sound words, which
thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus" (2
Tim. 1:13).  "Sound words" and "love" are inseparable.  True love is
limited by the boundaries of sound doctrine.

     Unfortunately, the new kind of Christianity today is anxious to
work side by side and fellowship with those who deny basic doctrines,
"the form of sound words."  Those who uphold Bible doctrine are
looked upon as disturbers of the peace.  "God would bypass them," 
says Mr. White.  Yet Paul says,  "Hold fast."

     True Bible love is able to discern.  Paul prayed for the believers at
Philippi that "Love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and
in all judgment (or discernment)"  (Philippians 1:9). 
     Paul had Christian love but he withstood Peter to the face because
"he was to be blamed" (Gal. 2:11).  Peter, in later life, wrote in praise
to Paul as "our beloved brother Paul" (2 Peter 3:15). 
     These are days when some men, long respected in orthodox
Christian circles, are veering away from a straight course in the Word
of God.  A sustained effort is being made to remove the sharp lines of
distinction between fundamentalism and modernism in order to draw
them together and to work together in an unholy alliance.  Godly love
is loyal to the Christian faith and the Word of God.  Godly love is
discerning love and this is the love we so desperately need today. 
     Love cannot fellowship with error. Error is like leaven, of which we
read, "A little leaveneth the whole lump" (1 Cor. 5:6).  Truth mixed
with error is equivalent to all error, except it is more innocent looking,
and therefore more dangerous.  It is not easy and it is not popular to
stand by the truth in love.  But if we consider "the reproach of Christ
greater riches than the treasures of Egypt" it may mean light and life,
abundant and everlasting.  May we love the truth and hold the truth in
love.


     BAPTISTS JOIN ECUMENICAL LAND LOBBY
                by the Editor

     Strange things take place under the pressures of the
Ecumenical Movement. 25 years ago Baptists were put in jail by
roman Catholics in Quebec for preaching the Gospel.  The same
Baptist group is today united with Roman Catholics to help obtain
good land sites for churches.  The following report is taken from the
Halifax Mail-Star of November 23, 1974.

     Twelve church organizations representing at least 90,000 persons
in metro have formed a lobby through which they hope to exert
influence on developers to obtain good land sites in growing residential
areas.
     The new committee, the Inter-Faith Regional Planning Association,
is headed by Rev. Gordon MacLean, rector of St. Mary's Basilica.
     The organization is in the formative stage, trying to make itself
known in the community.  It has met only three times since it was
formed this summer.
     Letters of introduction are being sent to mayors of Halifax and
Dartmouth and to city developers informing them of the association's
interest in development plans and proposals.
     The association is seeking to gain an advisory status with
developers in connection with the allocation of property for church use
in development plans.
     The new association hopes to discover plans of
developers to determine the ind of space being made available for
church use, forward this information to the member-church
organizations for consideration, and then pass the approval or
disapproval of its member-churches to the developers. Association
Vice-Chairman Rev. Clair Hofstotter, of the Fellowship Baptist
Church, of Halifax, says in the past developments have been planned
and approved by City Council without provision for church buildings.
     The result has been that some churches have been forced to locate
on the periphery of these areas, either because of inadequate space, or
because the price demanded for the property the churches would have
liked to have built on was too high.
     Similar organizations of churches have been formed in Toronto,
Kitchener-Waterloo, and in other areas of Ontario with successful
results, he says.
     The ecumenical group also may not be able to bring about more
joint building and sharing of facilities, such as those being
contemplated by six denominations in the Sackville area, she says. 
But it will provide that opportunity because of the dissemination of
individual church plans for development among the association
members.
     In Sackville, the campus church project has brought together
lutherans, Anglicans, Catholics, United Church members,
Presbyterians and members of the Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) to build facilities for their joint use on five acres of land
allotted to the church project.
     The United Baptists and the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptists
have chosen to build independently, and are currently negotiating
individually for property.
     Both are members of the newly formed association and will keep it
informed of their progress.
     Meanwhile, an inquiry committee of the association has been
formed to investigate MAPC and its plans for future development. 
This group is to submit a report by January to the association.
     The impetus for the formation of the association came from the
churches involved in the Sackville campus group.  Mr. Hofstotter says,
when it ran into problems that should have been dealt with by a group
such as the association.
     Father MacLean says the association is the kind of organization that
five years from now will be seen to have been a wise course of action
for those involved.  It's "practical." Participating are the Anglican
Church, the Atlantic United baptist Convention, the Fellowship of
Evangelical Baptist Churches, the Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ), Church of the Nazarene, ran Church, the Presbyterian Church,
Catholic Church, Salvation Army, Seventh day Adventists, United
Church, and Universalist Unitarians.
     Membership is open to any legally instituted religious body and
each member appoints three representatives to the association.


          LIBERAL CATHOLICS RECEIVED
        AT N.Z. NCC MEETING - Outlook

     The Liberal Catholic Church was received into membership of the
National Council of Churches in the dying hours of its annual meeting
at the Methodist Church in Upper Riccarton at the end of August.

     Provisional membership was given to the Liberal Catholics the
previous year, when they applied for membership.  The constitution of
the NCC required that the approval of existing members be sought
before they could be granted full membership.
     There was some opposition to their being received.
 "While the Baptist Church will not withdraw form the NCC if the
Liberal Catholics are admitted, it has some hesitation about their being
members," said the Rev. R. J. Thompson, who teaches in the Baptist
College in Auckland.
   Different

     "The centre of the Liberal Catholic Church  is a different centre to
that of Christianity," he said. The report presented to the annual
meeting gave reasons for Mr. Thompson's contention.  They  were
quotations from a "Statement of Principles" of the Liberal Catholic
Church.
     The following are examples:
       "Man, being in essence divine, can ultimately know the deity
whose life he shares, by   gradually unfolding through successive lives
on earth the divine powers that are latent in him, and grow into a
greater knowledge of the universe, which is itself the expression of that
divine life."
  "The Liberal Catholic Church believes that there is a body of doctrine
and mystical experience common to all religions, which cannot be
claimed as the exclusive possession of any.  Moving within the orbit of
Christianity and regarding itself as a distinctively Christian Church, it
nevertheless holds that other religions are divinely inspired and that all
proceed from a common source, though each may stress different
aspects of this teaching.  The Liberal Catholic Church accordingly
does not seek to convert people from one religion to another."

ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT HITS CHRISTIAN BOOK STORES
    - from the Bookstore Journal, April, 1975

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                Editor's Note

     The Peoples Gospel Hour Book Store does not belong to the
Christian Booksellers Association.

     How sad to see companies such as Zondervan selling their souls for
a cash flow.

     Home Evangel Books in Canada is the main representative of
Ecumenical and compromising literature even though it is operated by
Christians.  The dollar sign is greater than the Cross in these days.