OUT OF CONTEXT: CHURCH COUNCIL'S OPINION QUOTED
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 10. “There have been complaints that sandwich-boards paraded in Queen street on the Friday night before the military training referendum _ contained a statement: 'The Council of Churches Opposes Conscription,’ ’ stated the Rev. F. R. Belmcr, convener of the public questions committee to the Auckland Presbytery last mght. It had since been ascertained, Mr. Belmcr said, that the actual statement on the boards was: “The World Council of Churches has declared war is contrary to the will of God. Oppose conscription!” The first part was a quotation from the Amsterdam report of the World Council of Churches, removed from its context. The second was an unwarranted inference that the quotation was relevant to the issue put before the New Zealand voters.
There was no statement in the posters directly involving the Now Zealand Council of Churches, which had made no statement on one side or the other, and had left it to an interchurch council to deal with the matter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23021, 11 August 1949, Page 3
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169OUT OF CONTEXT: CHURCH COUNCIL'S OPINION QUOTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23021, 11 August 1949, Page 3
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