PRIMITIVE METHODISM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 19 January 1912, Page 4

PRIMITIVE METHODISM.

t THE "LOKD'S DAY" ALLIANCE. (Hr TelcEraDh.—Press Association.! i Christchurch, January 19. The business of the Primitive Mcthod- ! isl Conference was concluded to-day. l A recommendation from tho Public . Questions Committee was adopted coverI ing resolutions protesting against statc- " nients by Jiomiui Catholic speakers ad- - versoly criticising the leaders of the Ee- - formation j also against the "No Ticnnero" Decree and the action of the Kdinan t Catholic Church in interfering in public . matters, with special reference to tho . marching of Government troops through Iho .streets of Wellington in celebration of a iionian Catholic anniversary. Satisi faction was expressed with the licensing " poll figures. '. The conference declared its opposition ' to .sectarian teaching in (he State schools, ' and instructed Uie committee to report ' on the question of Bible reading in J schools. A resolution was carried expressing alarm at the growth of gambling, and it • was decided to urge the Minister for i Defence not to authorise military train- ; ing on Sundays, to give ample opportunity for the holding of religious services in camps, and to appoint Primitive 1 Methodist chaplains. II was agreed to co-operate with other Protestant. Churches in the Ixird's Day ; Alliance Conference, which will, it is re--1 gardod, be one of tho most important held in New Zealand.