Excerpt from Statement of the Committee of the St. Gabriel Street Church, Detailing the History of the Recent Proceedings, by Which the Congregation Was Deprived of the Services of the Free Church Deputies, and Brought to the Verge of Dissolution: With an Appendix, Containing Correspondence and Documentary Evidence

We now come to a developement of the spirit and principles of Church discipline, which have given birth to all the proceedings, of which we complain, and also, of the practical exemplification of these principles in Cote Street Church since its organization. Mr. Redpath has avowed his persuasion that it were better that the dozen families, which, it was erroneously believed, were the utmost number thatwould continue to cleave to the St. Gabriel Street Church, should he left to the hazard of perishing, than that 'his scheibe of disci, .li nary reform should not be carried into complete Operation. Is not this sentiment clearly embodied, and very consistently acted out in the proceedings which we have recorded? This doctrine, we hesitate not to pronounce, unscriptural, antichristian. To those who have even a rudiments] knowledge of the genius and end of the Gospel dispen sation, it cannot admit of doubt, that the man who was capable of forming and uttering this sentiment, has yet to learn what he the first principles of the oracles of God. If there he a truth pro-eminently clear, certain, fundamental, peculiarly characteristic of the Gospel, ' and lying every where upon its very surface, palpable to the dullest and most careless eye, it is, that the Gospel shall be preached to every creature, and as it offers a free full salvation to the chief of sinners, it specially and emphatically charges its Heralds, as if it were the glory of the cause, and of their Mission, to search out in the lanes and' hedges 'of the world, the lame, the halt, the maimed, the blind. It is the'indig uant reproof of the Saviour himself to the Scribes and Pharisees of old. The Publicans and Harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. We know him who hath said they that are whole need not a Phy sician, but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The more sick, the more deadly the distemper, the greater the more immediate is the need of the Skilful Physician. If Mr. R. And his friends had held sound and scriptural views of the great principles of the world's evangelization, their treatment of St. Gabriel Street Church would have been in all respects reversed. In fine to preach the Gospel to two or three perishing sinners, to say nothing of ten or twelve households, if we make Paul or Christ our model or authority, will, must, take precedence of sacraments - and or dinances - the most sacred and solemn - much more of all matters ofex. Ternal order, of ecclesiastical reform and discipline; How would it sound like a discord in the Gospel strain, to every truly christian ear heart, to read - placed by the side of the texts which we have quoted, (and many more might have been added to the same effect), shut them out, cast them ofi', take fromthem the preaching of the Gospel, disregard all their remonstrances and appeals in order, that my new form of dis cipline, of Church organization and economy, may not be hindewd or marred.

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