LABOUR AND THE METHODIST CHURCH

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11845, 28 January 1907, Page 4

LABOUR AND THE METHODIST CHURCH

Received January 26. 9.49 p.m. Sydney, January 26 The Presidential address of the Political Labor League makes an attack on the Methodist The address refers with regret, to the introduction of religion into politics. It asserts that the State Labor Party never permitted relig ous differences to enter their ranks; they thoughts man's religion was a thing entirely belonging to himself and regretted that the Methodist Church, 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 for regret and sorrow that it should allow itself to be used by a party of politicians against a movement to lift the people. g7 Received/January 27, 9-j>B^p.m.^ ,fr" • 't!^"'*'-^ - Sydney, January 26. "'The President of the Methodist Conference in reply to the statements in the Labor League address said there was nothing unfriendly in the attitude of the Church to Labor. The Church was the friend of the Laborers best interbsta, but held itself free to have some judgment upon what^the best intrests^were.