"NEGATION OF CHRISTIANITY."
"Cadet N.C.0." seems to be uninformed or; the trend of international affairs and tne •.-, interdependence of nations. He thinke tnas the only opponents of conscription m>P ■ who object to being drilled. Tlfr-enforcement,, of conscription in any land means persecution,:, and there are still men in some European countries enduring terms of many I e & imprisonment for their conscientious ob J ec "° J to military service not because of its , but because of its aims and usages.. ™ e - "' opponents of conscription are men and womw who see in military training the creation w the war mind which inevitably leads to w< that absolute negation of Christianity. £ us remember Livingstone's unarmed V enel ™ A tion into Africa, William Penn's. unaflg colony of Pennsylvania, the : - boundaries between Canada and theunn ■ States, the many settlements by avbltr that have already been made, internatw ,• postal, telegraph and railway services, *' the tendency to the obliteration of bouncian by the coming of the aeroplane. Cl ™f a v fe depends on the development of civil " • Military ideals are subversive of the J. ■ interests of civic life. EVA P. <^ iU *
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 8
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