BROKEN HILL OFFENDED.
.. CHARGES WHITTLED DOWN. •iv iiiLECKAru— pitrss association—copiniriniv Sydney,. May 11. '- There is a storm of indignation at Broken Hill over tho. charges made in th© Presbyterian Assembly in regard , to. the religious stato of tho city'. . \V . Tho' Assembly' declares that tho Rev. Mr. Patorson's strictures havo been misapprehended. Ho only made tho allegation that ho found 'in . his fidd of ' work certain antiChristian 1 forces, 1 but ho made no general fchargo'against Broken. Hill. • . \ According to the first cablegram received, the gist oftlio. charges was' as' follows:—That forces .were- organised 'against Christianity ; at •Brokon 'Hill,' as in no other city in the Commonwealththat they had. an aggressive and almost triumphant Socialism 'that: made;scorn, of sacred things; that children yere gathered into schools oil. Monday' andtaught.' to bewaro of ' church and* meetings of labour ' unions were held on Sundays.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 7
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