IRISH PROTESTANTS CONDEMN CASTLE RULE.

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 23

IRISH PROTESTANTS CONDEMN CASTLE RULE.

Canon Willis, rector, Moyne, presided recently at the annual meeting of the Irish Guild of the Church (Protestant), at which a resolution was unanimously passed, regretting that the Protestant Church in Ireland was so constantly identified with the reactionary forces in that country "by . our bishops, clergy ,and representative laymen," declaring it illogical and disastrous that the Church which., claims to be the National Church, should be so completely out of sympathy with the ideals of the great majority of the nation which she professes to serve, and regarding it as inconsistent that the Church expresses her abhorrence of deeds of violence on the one side, while she refrains from condemning the actions of those in power which are opposed to the Christian principles of right and justice. - --''■ ; The resolution added:—"We are voicing not only our own opinions, but those of a growing body both of clergy and laity in our Communion." The Ulster Protestant deputation to the United States was alluded to in the discussion, but as' the members purporrting to represent the Church were not officially appointed, no action was taken. '