A Protest

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11, 16 March 1905, Page 18

A Protest

At the Methodist Conference in Wellington last week two clergymen— Revs. T. G. Hammond a nd J • J-Mat-ter— recorded a protest against the vote of a sum of money towards the salary and expenses of the paid political agitator of the Bible-in-schools League. The two reverend gentlemen deserve honorable mention here. Their action at the Conference meeting evidently s lamps them as men who do not believe in clergymen abdicating one of the elementary duties of their calling and loafing in "easy-chairs while lay State officials turn the public schools into proselytising institutions, or use them for the propaganda of agnosticism, or (at best) administer to the luckless little ones homoeopiathic doses of an emasculated Unitarianism.