Presbyterian General Assembly.
[PBK PRKSS ASSOCIATION.]
Wjbi ungton, February 15. At the opening of the Presbyterian General Assembly, delegates from Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Wanvanui, Nelson, ChrUtchurch, Timaru, Weatland, Otagi, and Soathland were present. liev W. Gillies, Tinaaru, was elected moderator, vice 'Jr Klmslie. Mr Gillies briefly addressed ihj assemblage on the policy of the church, and referring to the liquor craflic urged its abolition, and warned the people against gambling. The Legislature, he said, had not oi.F, been criminally protective and patronising towards this vice, but had also been criminally and suicidally interdictive and obstruptive towards virtue by its state ban upon the Bible in schools,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2899, 15 February 1893, Page 2
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107Presbyterian General Assembly. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2899, 15 February 1893, Page 2
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