RELIGION AND DEFENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 26 May 1911, Page 5

RELIGION AND DEFENCE.

FLUTTER OF EXCITEMENT IX A CHURCH. A flutter of excitement passed over the congregation at the Oxford Terrace Baptist Clnvrch, Christchurch, when a person who said he was a member of the church rose from his seat on Sunday evening, after a notice respecting military training was given, and protested against such notifications being made in the church. The notice was one from the Ministers’ Association aching for the names of all lads eligible for training, in order that an interdenominational corps might be formed, the Government having advised this course to the ministers of tiie churches. The officer who read the notice said that many persons thought the churches were being made, recruiting ground:; for the army, but this was not the case. This was only one of two evils, and it seemed the bettor com so. 'l'he person before referred to then entered Ids emphatic protest against compulsory military training. He was, he said, the father of three sons who would lie liable to servo under the Act, and ho was opposed to the whole tiling. The minister conducting the service at this point interrupted, * announced the next hymn, and flic incident closed.