PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 655, 4 November 1909, Page 6

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

CHURCH AND HBOtfR. RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN iND GERMANY. ' -;i (By Telotraph-Pio™ Association.) & ~' , _ . ChrJttchurisli. Nwember s. At the Prcebytccrun General Assembly to. day, tho following motion, pror<*cd hv Dr. Gibb, was canioh-'-That, ui Sictj of the urgent need for a bctlc-r underetandinj beK«en the Church and prgaiwcd labour, and fu&W in view of tho fact that in tho Prabyifcfoa Church of America much, K ood hi* boon effected by tho adoption erf a scheme by «hidi tho Church, through its picibyteriee, is iwiro. Mirtod on labour councils, mth a similar con-, ejjlta'tno reprcswtrtivo or fhtso coxircile oa the i>rrebyd«ii«sj nml, flii.illv, in ncu of tha fact that the Sooitidh l'r«l»-ti?ian ChurohcJ μ-o now contemplating .1 similar liik of frlioa, tho assembly commtiKk the eoniidciatwn of tli« wholo utittitrai to the ewnn'itteo on Iho slatt of rehpon, with if lh ( y dwaiuii him. to ma.Ro anj prclimmniy nirangmr«ntß for the • adoption ot som« such bcTiemb by 'tho nascm. oVortnrcs from th« Ntlron, Auckland, an<! Oamaru dealing «>th Ihe diploinatio reklioni, exivtuie bo'ueen Great JJriUia and Goruany, v«re xlißcutwd, and e motiofi Mrs carried to the effect that, in mow of the stxamwl MlaSious between the BrV.ibli ond German Empires, with all tli« threatened Oftluml. toia conaequenccs to civilisation, eommerfco; bdU religion, the asscmblj is ql ei.miou tha* will© it was the duty and. prhiWs of lh« Btitidi nation as a people to do their vory ntmout to prwervo Uieir Intcrtete by Jand and eca, npd defend at nil haiarcfc t"no |?rmt.hori*. a-jo which had been entrusted to them by' Pr- *■ jfidcniys. in tho marlaite of the vorld, it be- . novtd -them to maintnip a. celm, unvindiotiTe. and Cnnstiaji. . u „_, Lt . _^.