SUNDAY BUSINESS MEETINGS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 7

SUNDAY BUSINESS MEETINGS

PROTEST BY PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. (By IHcffrapli.—Press Association.) Dunedin, November 23. At the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day the following motion was moved bv the Rev. R. Inglis and carried:—"That fie General Assembly, having had its attention called to a case in which the Dunedin Tramways' Union inflicted a fiiie upon one of its members for absenting himself without apology from business meetings of the union held on Sundays, such action having been subsequently declared;legal in a Court of Law, expresses its stroiig protest against 6uch action as a violation of the rights of conscience. The Assembly also expresses regret that the Dunedin Tramways Union not only holds its business meetings' on that day, but seeks to coerce those of its members .who conscientiously objqct to attending 'same under pains and penalties." The youth ;of the Church report was discussed this evening. The report states that good progress had been made with 797 new Bible-class members and 23 new classes. Noble service has been rendered by Mr. Eraser Barton, the travelling secretary, and by the Sunday-school extension agent, Mr. R. Blair. The "Break of Day" magazine has how a circulation of 7600. It- was resolved to appoint two new agents to work among the Bible classes, the salary of each to be £176 per annum.