CHURCH AND DEFENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10738, 1 September 1913, Page 5

CHURCH AND DEFENCE.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Loudon August 31. Right Rev. G. H. Frodsham, Bishop of North Queensland, in the “Nineteenth Century,” replies to the Rev. Richards’ remarks. Pie admits that the Society of Friends, Congregationalists, and Baptists passed condemnatory resolutions, but their opposition sometimes passed beyond what is usually associated with religious thought. They ever became super-political, and made excursions into naval and military science. Baptists and Congregtionalista form 3 84 per cent of the population against the Presbyterians, Methodists and Anglicans, who are 65.81), or with Catholics 84,45 of the population, while the fate of dissenting resolutions and passing supporting motions in the Anglican, Presbyterian aud Methodist assemblies and synods lead to the unavoidable conclusion that the majority of religious though tis in favour of the Defence Act. “[The Rev. Richards, of Collins Street Congregational Church, Melbourne, In a letter to the Daily News, said a sinister feature of Australian militarism is the association of the press with the military authorities, whereby the majority of the papers engage in a conspiracy of silence regarding the growing opposition to the Defence Act. The Rev. Richards censured the baneful influence of ecclesiastical jingoes.]