CHALLENGING SERMON

Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 6

CHALLENGING SERMON

ARCHDEACON ADDRESSES UNION ACCEPTED ITS INVITATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. A. meeting of the Wellington Amalgamated Society of the Painters and Decorators’ Industrial Union of Workers, which was addressed last night at its own request on tho subject of ‘ Tho State and the Doctors,’ by Archdeacon Bullock, was not open to the Press.. This, according to advice given yesterday, was decided last week by the union executive. Recently Archdeacon Bullock delivered a sermon in which he dealt with the Social Security Amendment ©ill involving tho free medical practitioner service, and the union secretary wrote to him stating that members of the union read with astonishment an account of the sermon. That Archdeacon Bullock had very definite views on the subject there was no doubt, he said, and nothing would give members of the union greater pleasure than to hear them expressed by Archdeacon Bullock in person. He asked Archdeacon Bullock to address a meeting of the union on ‘ The State and tho Doctors.’' It is . understood that Archdeacon Bullock was given a courteous .and reasonable hearing, answering a number of questions, and was accorded a vote of thanks.