ANOTHER PROTEST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1617, 7 December 1912, Page 4

ANOTHER PROTEST.

SUNDAY DEILL 'OBJECTED TO. Strong exception, is taken by the Kiri Session ot St. John's, 'Willis Street, to tho Sunday drilling and target practice ■alleged to have been carried out bv H. Company of -the Fifth (Wellington) Regimerit recently. The following letter (dateu yesterday), has been addressed to the Minister for Defence (the Hon. Jas. Allen), in reference to the matter:— . "Dear Sir,—We are directed to plaoe beforo you the following resolution which, was adopted at a meeting of tho Kfrk Session of St. John's Church on' Wednesday last:— " 'It having come to the knowledge or this Kirk Session that Company H of the Fifth Regiment was paraded at- Tren. tham last Sunday (December 1), and that military evolutions, including targetfiring, were conducted in ,the afternoon of the lord's Day, this Session desires to reoord its strong protest against the 6amo as a profanation of tho Sabbath, an outrage on the Christian sentiment of the community, and an injury to the religious welfare of the young men concerned. Tho session further records its conviction that procedure of this kind is calculated to imperil the scheme of compulsory training by awakening tho opposition of the Christian Church, and if all persons in tho community who regard the Sabbath as the bulwark of our liberty and its duel observance as an indispensable incans ofi national well-being.' "On behalf of the Session, we are, eto., "Yours faithfully, "JAS. GIBB, D.D.. Moderator. "M. D. MENELATJS, Clerk. . "J. G. W. AITICEN, Member.**