RELIGION AND POLITICS.
METHODIST CHURCH AND LABOUR LEAGUE. Vim Aseociation-By Telegraph-Copyright. SYDNEY, January 26.
The presidential address of the Political Labonr League makes an attack on the Methodist Church. The address refers with regret to the introduction of religion into politics, and stales that tho Labour party never permitted religions differences to enter their ranks. They thought a man's religion was a thing entirely belonging to himself, and regretted that the Methodist Churcli, together with the so-called" Temperance Alliance, had been practically captured by the Reform Association. Looking back on the history of the Methodist Church, it was a. subject of regret and sorrow that it should allow itself to be need by party politicians against ;i movement that was intended to uplift, the people.
The president of tho Methodist Conference, in reply, said that there was nothing unfriendly in tie attitude oE the Church to Labour. The Church was the friend -of Labour's best interests,' but it held itself free to have some judgment upon what those best interests were,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13812, 28 January 1907, Page 5
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