OBJECTORS’ RIGHTS
SERVICE IN FORCE CLEAR STATEMENT URGED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Per Press. Association.) OAMARU, this day. The Oamaru Presbytery to-day passed a resolution recording its deep concern that the publicity given to a resolution of the General Assembly about the rights of conscientious objectors had given the impression that the Presbyterian Church condoned the attitude of a negligible number of pacifists who refused service to the State as combatants. “In pledging support to those who, for conscience sake, refused military service the assembly merely reiterated the historic regard for the liberty of conscience, apparently forgetting it is quite gratuitous to do so at the present time when the State is engaged in a desperate struggle for the defence of the fundamental principles of Christian conscience itself.”
The resolution stated: “The Oamaru ■presbytery calls on the church authorities to give a clear and unequivocal statement, of the church’s wholehearted adherence to the cause in which the Empire is engaged and enjoins members to make any sacrifice required to achieve victory over the enemies of 'Christianity and democracy." ■ • • ■ __
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 6
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176OBJECTORS’ RIGHTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 6
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