CHURCH SAFEGUARD
RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE SERVICE IN WARTIME (l’er Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A provision affirming the rights of individual conscience, was incorporated into a previous resolution defining the attitude of the church to war by the Christchurch Presbytery today. At the September meeting tne action taken by the Goyernment was approved by the Rev. J. Johnston, who termed a man who would do nothing to assist his country in time of war as a fraud and a traitor. The Rev. Lawson Robinson said the resolution 'sought to guard the rights of conscience.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20066, 12 October 1939, Page 7
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