PRESBYTERTAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
S By TolograDh-Prepi Auoclatlon. Invercargill,' November 20. The temperance report) presented by the Rev. T. Paterson -iyas discussed by the General Assembly/and the following deliverance was carried, with only one ' dissentient"Tliat the assembly declares its continual adherence to its past) policy of urging all ministers, office-bear-ers, and members of our church to votj and -work for national prohibition; it further declares its conviction that there is no real value as a means to ending tho ovil, attendant to the liquor traffic in the purchase of it by tine State, and that we regard such an alliance between the State and a business fraught with moral and physioal evils as "unworthy of t.lio ideals wlliich should govern a. Chns•tian nation." . '. , Tho caso of tiho Rev. A. A. Murray, of Auckland, who was baptised by immersion, was referred to a special committce. / i
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 49, 21 November 1919, Page 8
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144PRESBYTERTAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 49, 21 November 1919, Page 8
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