PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15978, 21 November 1919, Page 2

PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

INVERCARGILL, November 20.

The General Assembly referred the case of the Rev. A. A. Murray, of Auckland, who was baptised by immersion, to a special committee. 'Die temperance report was presented by the Rev. T. Paterson and discussed by the General Assembly, and tile following deliverance was carried with only one dissentient: (1) That the Assembly declares its continual adherence to its past policy of urging, all ministers, office-bearers and members of oUr Church to vote and work for ’ National Prohibition: it further declares its conviction that there is no x-eal value in State purchase as a means of ending the ©Vila attendant to the liquor traffic, and that we regard such an alliance between the State and a business fraught with moral and physical evils as unworthy of the ideals which should govern a Christian nation.