A PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY DISCUSSION.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15000, 22 February 1919, Page 7

A PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY DISCUSSION.

Christchurchj Feb. 21. J Certain statements reported to have '- been made by Mr R.. Semple, AT.P., in j 1 the Colosseum last Saturday night, were!1 discussed at. the_ Presbyterian General ' Assembly to-day. ■ ' ■'■•• , The Rev. W. Seorgie, speaking on i] Church union, said : '.'Men .-can stand up . s in public, jia.lls in. Christchurch and are •lot ashamed to' proclaim themselves Bolshevists in this country. They are •lot ashamed of it, and our country in its laws and legislation is so Aveak that it is either afraid or ashamed to put those men out of the v.'ay. What do tin; newspapers tell you is tlie logical i outcome of Bolshevism. Women arc to be public property, and these men proclaim it here, and they are allowed to draw £300 a year and tv call themselves j members of Parliament." The ia*fc remark "was greeted "with ories of '"Shame." The Rev. J. Dickson, to illustrate remarks on democracy in the Church, said: "Docs anybody say that Air Semple, 31.-P., represents the. 70 3 000 .icgistered trade unionists hi this country? 1 o:iy no. ;} The question was answered by cries lir ■'!'.. Lo^in protested 'against Mr S]())u:j|{Vs- iuime being introduced, saying j that politics had nothing to do with the.l As--oinbly?s discussion,, and .that it was a ChrisU'hurr-h affair and not a.Dominion but... t