CANTERBURY MOTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) _ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. •That marriage, divorce, and birth control should be discussed by a special committee of the next Methodist conference to report to the following conference is the opinion of the North Canterbury Methodist Synod yesterday, which carried a motion to that effect without discussion. The following motion was then carried on the voices:—"That Synod is of opinion that it is the dissemination of knowledge in regard to birth control that is partly responsible for the declining birth-rate an great Britain and the Dominion In view of the peril such decline is to the human race we believe the Church is unwise to give any countenance to propaganda that has very sinister aspects."
Mr. L. Watson said that no resolution of the Church would have any effect on a matter such as that under discussion at present. The upper strata ot society, which had knowledge, had small families, and the lower strata, without knowledge, had the largest families. Nothing the Church could i do would alter that. !
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 4
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173CANTERBURY MOTION Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 4
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