"MISGUIDED CONCERN"
Sir,—l wish to thank you most heartily for your leading article of Friday last, headed "Misguided Concern," and I should like to disassociate myself entirely from the resolution passed at the recent Methodist Synod concerning the well-being of those in detention camps. Methodist Church Congregations have in recent months repeatedly, emphatically, and publicly expressed their views concerning both conscientious objectors and pacifists, and it is therefore greatly to be deplored that certain of our Church leaders should persist in expressing opinions which they are well aware, are not shared by the majority of their Church adherents. Had the Synod's sympathies and resolutions concerned the fate of our men in "detention" camps in Italy, Germany, or worse still, in Japan, then I think it could claim to speak for the Methodist Church; as it is, it speaks for a small and unpopular minority amongst us. My own feeling is that conscientious objectors have been treated far too leniently.—l am, etc., • A METHODIST MILITANT.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 6
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