COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

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COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

£ PLEBISCITE OF CHURCHES. ' Br Tcleerapli—Press Association—OopyrieM fltec. August 31, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 30. Dr. Frodsham (formerly Anglican Bishop of Nortli Queensland), in tho "Nineteenth Century," replies to tire Uev. Mr. Richards, of tho Collins Street Congregational Church —who alleged that there existed a "conspiracy of stlenco" on the part of the military authorities and tho press with regard to the Defence Act-r-and admits that 'tho Society of Friends, tho Congregationalists and the Baptists passed condemnatory resolutions against the schomo, but their opposition sometimes passed beyond what was usually associated- with religious thought, and even becamo superpolitical when they made excursions into naval and military science. , Baptists and Congregationalists formed 3.84 per centum of tho population, against the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Anglicans G0.89, or, with Roman Catholics added, 84.45, while tho fato of tho dissenting resolutions and tho passing of supporting motions in' tho Anglican, Presbyterian, and Mothodist Assemblies and Synods load to the unavoidable conclusion that tho weight of religious thought, is in favour of the Defence Act.'