SACRILEGE.
TWO NEW PI.YMCiTJTH CHURCHES DESECRATED'.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) „ New Plymouth, July l Yesterday morning some evilly-disposed or mentally deficient jiti-son entered SI. Mnrv's Anglican. Church, evidently some time between nino and ten o'clock, threw Communion linen on the floor, and filled the chalice with Vine from Basons. The vicar and churchwardens are waking a strong effort to rliscovaT the culprit, ill order to bring him to boo*. liiqilirv on this ni:;lrer shows that Whitely' Church lias been troubled in a similar manner on two or three Sundays latelv. In one instance, when the act must have been committiM at i-omo time Lotwefn four o'clock c.ad the evening service, the. perpetrator took the .Sacramental bread from the b.ble, and distributed it over the floor. Other minor sacrilegious acU have- also, been committed, such as pulling cushions olf SEats, scattering authenif, and so on.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 860, 5 July 1910, Page 4
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143SACRILEGE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 860, 5 July 1910, Page 4
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