CHURCH & WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2402, 6 March 1915, Page 7

CHURCH & WAR

METHODIST CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christehuroh, March 5. The morning session of the Methodist Conference was preceded by a sendee of intercession in connection with the war. Immediately followingHlis RevP. W. Fairclough's resolution on the war was unanimously carried. The resolution reads"While deplon'ng the appeal to brute force in difference between rational beings ; and mourning over the horrors and miseries of the present world-wide conflict, this confer* ence is profoundly convinced that Great Britain is absolutely innocent of the awful guilt of letting slip the dogs I of war, and has a cause transparently just before God and the nations. We rejoice in the unanimity and loyalty, of all parts of our far-flung Empire, 1 particularly of New Zealand, in supporting the Motherland in the hour of her need.' Wo also rejoice in the valour and growing strength of the King's forces, and we join earnestly in prayer that God will defend the right and causo the grinding militarism of Germany to cease from the earth. We regard the British Empire, with all its defects, as being in practical righteousness the largest instalment of the Kingdom of God that has yet arisen among men, and we earnestly pray that Almighty God will avert calamity from tlia dispellsaion of righteousness and liberty which it has been the glory of our Empire to spread over the world. On the motion of tho Rev. G. Knowles-Smith, the following resolution was also carried unanimously:—"That this conference notes with intense satisfaction the ready response given by the young men of our Church in all parts ■ to tho Emigre's call. We earnestly pray that, the Divine Father strengthen them in the hour of temptation, protect them in time of danger, and speedily bring them 6afely homo."-