A PRESBYTERY REBUKED.
ALL CREEDS THE SAME BEFORE THE LAW. United Press Association —By Eiectrlo Telegraph—Copy light. MELBOURNE, March 17. Mr Justice Hodges, in ordering tho release of the Rev. P. J. Murdoch, who was committed to prison for refusing to produce a letter in Court, said he was no respecter of creeds, all of which were tho same before the law. He had a profound respect for tho Presbyterian Church, but it had been reserved to that body to set an example to the less educated and poorer members of tho community in endeavouring to defy the law and defeat justice. If the members of tho Presbytery had come to the Court in the same attitude they might have been lodged with Mr Murdoch.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13376, 18 March 1909, Page 7
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125A PRESBYTERY REBUKED. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13376, 18 March 1909, Page 7
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