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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 7

GREAT RELIGIOUS LEADERS! : : Read What They Say: = The Rev. A. H. Colvin (Anglican, N.Z.) says: Rev. Dr. Rainsford: "To drink is no sin. Jesus "Prohibition may be good enough for Germans and Christ drank. To keep an hotel is no sin. Any - • Turks, but Englishmen will not submit to this policy that c j aims the name o{ chr ; st of does vexations, Mating and unnecessary prohibition."— . cUm H| - w|tl> lhe R Oct. 21, 1914. . • 6 . ; universal, taste of man for alcohol on the basis of Canon Williams (Anglican, N.Z.): " I vote against ! law and order alone, cannot commend itself to the Prohibition because its advocates say that the means best intelligence, and is doomed to fail." taken by Jesus Christ to convey His highest grace to man is unclean.'-Oct. 21, 1914. Bishop Clark: "Prohibition has been disastrous to the The Rev. W. C. Wood (N.Z.): "I am against No- cause of temperance." License because my experience of its operation in Invercar(Keg)ville has convinced me of its, complete Bishop Johnson: "The hotel-keeper has as legitimate a inefficiency, Oct. 21, 1914. right to sell alcoholic liquors as I have to preach the Gospel." The Rev. Jas. Milne, M.A. (Presbyterian, N.Z.): Prohibition is not Temperance; neither can Total Abstinence be called Moderation. Scripture gives Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, Central Congregational Church, no sanction to coercion to virtue. Brooklyn, New York:. When you enact a law intended to do more than it.ought to do, jt generally The Rev. Mr. Rogers, speaking at Hinds in the Ash- ends in doing less than it should do. For that reason burton No-License electorate in August, 1913, de- I am opposed to Prohibition." nounced drunkenness in vigorous terms "and urged all to shun the temptation, which he believed was The Rev. Canon West, D.D.: "The Church of God greater in a district where there were no licensed has never declared the moderate use of Alcohol to houses.' i • >i be a sin. The Rev. D. Lyman Abbott, Editor of the "Outlook": " Prohibition was not the method of Jesus. T^ e CV " : Everyone knows that He lived in an age of total abstinence societies and there are many hotels that are perfectly orderly and did not join one of them." law-abiding, where people go to drink their beer in peace with congenial companions, and where a Cardinal Gibbons: " Prohibition creates a spirit of drunkard is scarcely ever seen. Have I, as a deception and hypocrisy, and compels men to do minister, any more right to interfere with the businsidiously and by stealth what they would otherwise iness of such a place than the hotel-keeper would do openly and above-board. Prohibition makes have to disturb the peace of my congregation while hypocrites of men." at worship?" I All distinguished Christian and Religious Leaders are opposed to Prohibition because it is a menace to "that glorious Liberty whereby all men may be made Free." When good men proclaim the inefficient, degrading and irreligious character of Prohibition and NoLicense you are more than justified in casting your votes to ensure a continuance of the present Jicensed conditions. i