BIBLE STUDENTS GAOLED.
“UNDERMINING THE STATE.” United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph-—Co p vri ght BERLIN, May *3l. Forty-two former members ol : the banned international Society of Bible Students were sentenced to terms ranging 1 1 uni four to 18 months. The Judge said he was not punishing them owing to their religious convictions but because tho\ belonged to an organisation whose tenets were simihir to Communism. Though they sought to bide theii aims under a mantle of religion they tried to undermine the foundations <3 the* State, therefore their doctrines must constitute anarchy.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13577, 1 June 1937, Page 5
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93BIBLE STUDENTS GAOLED. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13577, 1 June 1937, Page 5
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