BAPTIST PROTEST
CONSCIENCE AND WAR The statement that recent magisterial treatment of conscientious objectors in Auckland was disgraceful and that the country would not stand for it was made by Dr. A. Hodge at; a session of the Assembly of the Baptist I'nion of New Zealand yesterday. On the motion of Dr. Hodge the following resolution was carried: "That this Assembly reaffirms its adherence to the sacred principle of the integrity and liberty of the individual conscience. While, as'a body, reiterating its belief in the justice and righteousness ot the Km pi re war effort, it deprecates the humiliating and unfair treatment accorded certain conscientious objectors to war who have resisted coercive iiichiMou in the lighting force*." *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24103, 23 October 1941, Page 11
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117BAPTIST PROTEST New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24103, 23 October 1941, Page 11
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