ATTITUDE OF CHURCH TO WAR
GUARDING RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE ■ (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 11. Provision, affirming the rights of individual conscience, was incorporated into the previous resolution defining the attitude of the church to war by the Christchurch Presbytery today. At the September meeting the action taken by the Government was approved. The Rev. J. Johnston termed the man who would do nothing to assist his country in time of war as a fraud and a traitor. The Rev. Lawson Robinson said the resolution sought to guard the rights of conscience.
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Southland Times, Issue 23946, 12 October 1939, Page 7
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