PRESBYTERY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 206, 26 May 1921, Page 5

PRESBYTERY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The committee of the Wellington Presbytery (Dr. Gibb, convenor) appointed to follow up the Presbytery’s resolution regarding a League of Nations Union, ho,s adopted the following basis for congregational branches, and distributed copies among the congregations of tfie Presbytery. I. This union comprises men and women who, profoundly convinced of the brutalitv of war and of the immeasurable evil it occasions to nil the true interests of men and nations, realise that its prevention in the future depends, under God, on the vitalising of the League of Nations or of. some similar international organisation designed to secure universal disarmament, and the promotion of a spirit of good will among the peoples of mankind. IT. The members of this union pledge themselves to do their utmost to make the League of Nations effective by the quickening of a public sentiment opposed to war, and by insisting that our rulers shall refrain from making treaties with other nations without consulting either Parliament or the people. They further pledge themselves to refrain from all speech and action calculated bo create feelings of suspicion and hatred of other nations, including our late enemies, and to do what they can. to make the Longue of Nations a realised Kingdom of God among men. Copies of this basis, as well as of the Presbytery's resolution, are being sent to the Acting-Prime • Minister, tho local members of Parliament, the heads of federated Labour, and the” other Presbyteries of the Church.