The " Free " Presbytery of Dundee have resolved that
they deem "the act of Mr. Knight in holding ministerial fellowship with a Unitarian minister highly censurable," but the Presbytery, they add, "in view of this being the first offence of the kind with which the Church has had to deal, is satisfied with admonishing Mr. Knight for the act, requiring of him a statement repudiating the Unitarian body as forming no part of the Church of Christ, and enjoining Mr. Knight not to repeat the act under pain of exposing himself to the highest censure of the Church, and ap- pointing a committee to deal with Mr. Knight in regard to the difficulty he has in agreeing to this motion and report." We trust and believe that Mr. Knight will not commit himself to the very unintelligible proposition the affirmation of which is required of him. What does it mean ? Does it mean that the Unitarians cannot possibly have the Spirit of Christ ? That is false. Does it mean that they don't hold true views of Christ? Of course that is true to all who believe in the Incarnation, but it is a very different proposition from the affirmation demanded, and much more intelligible and definite. We recommend Mr. Knight to ask for a definition of the "Church of Christ" before committing himself to a declaration of no very charitable sound and com- pletely ambiguous meaning.
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