The Council of American Congregationalism has passed a resolution appealing to President Wilson and members of Congress to call a halt in the "swelling expenditures for tlio paraphernalia of war." There was somo opposition, on the ground that good people might differ with regard to naval programmes, but tho voting showed 144 in favour as against 99 on the other side; Tho text of tho resolution not only expressed disapproval of tho creation of colossal armies and navies, but committed the Congregational Churches of tho United States as "the linflinchine antagonists of all who by word or deed fan the flames of racial prejudice or disseminate tho seeds of international ill-wili." ' A tipsv Scot was making his way homo on a. bright Sunday morning, when tiio good folk wcro wending tlieiv way to tho kirk. A little dog pulled a ribbon from tho hand of a lailv.wlio was leading it, and it ran' from her she appealed to the first passer-by, who happened to he the inebriate, asking him to whittle to her poodle. "Woman! he retorted, solemnly, "woman, this is no day tor whustlin'." d
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 6
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186Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 6
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