SCENE AT A CHURCH.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18804, 28 November 1932, Page 7

SCENE AT A CHURCH.

A MILITANT SECT. POLICEMAN SENT FOR. AUCKLAND, Monday. The congregation of the Mount Eden Baptist Church, when emerging after the service, last evening, were confronted by about 10 members of a ■sect named the Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who called upon the church people to “admit their errors and accept the truth,” and asked them to accept tracts, for which a conribution of 3d or 6d was asked. "We are right! You are wrong I” was the burden of their oration. 111 excitable voices the 10 Jehovah Witnesses forcefully arraigned the preacher, Hie Rev. R. Stowards, with whose sermon, “ Millenial Dawnism,” the first of a series of addresses on “ The Old-time Religion and Modern Substitutes," they heartily disagreed. They called upon the congregation to depose their minister, one of them saying lie was "doing no good” and was “living on the fat of the land.” Somebody went for a policeman, who pleaded with the disputants to ■take their differences elsewhere. After a vain attempt to convert the policeman to their particular theological interpretaion, the disturbers took their departure, shouting as they went, “ Well, we have delivered our witnesses !"