METHODIST CHURCH.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17613, 16 November 1922, Page 11

METHODIST CHURCH.

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out the liquor traffic at the forthcoming poll we urge> upon all our people the importance of doing their utmost, not only by recording their own vote, but also by influencing other electors to support the great cause of prohibition." 1 '

"This Synod is convinced that any eystem of education which excludes from ijis syUafiis all religious instruction is inooinplete. and that the conference cooperate with other Protestant churches in any endeavour to introduce Bible reading in the public schools." "This Synod viewa with grav« apprehension the'growing tendency throughr. out the Dominion to treat with open indifference the sanctity of the Sabbath; it opposes any attempt to introduce Bunaay games or entertainment, because it believes that their sanction on the Lord's Day tends to obsoure the Divine intention that this day should be specifically a day of rest and worship. It h'olds that the secularisation of the Sabbath would prove disastrous to our national life and endorses the action of the committee for public morals in approaching the Government on the question."

The case of a returned soldier who was threatened with a reconsideration of his pension unless he paid out of his own pocket for dental attention, which the authorities held was militating against his recovery, was mentioned at a meeting of the Auckland Patriotic Association on Thursday, reports the "New Zealand Herald."' The man was Buffering from tuberculosa, and the association paid the dentist's iee of £5 for him and applied to tho Minister of Defence for a refund of the amonnt. The Minister, in reply, said that all member* of the N.Z.E.F. were rendered dentally fit immediately prior to their discharge from the force. -If, through their own nogleot, they failed to maintain their teeth in proper condition, it appeared to be qiute reasonable that tboy should be expected to remedy the defects at their own expense. Tie president, Mr J. H. (Junson, said that, on the face of it, the Minister's contention seemed to be reasonable.