POLITICS IN CHURCH.
[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir,—A short time ago I noticed a local in your paper stating that active canvassing was going on in the country districts for the coming election, which I thought at the time was an error, but there must have been something in it, for the canvassing has now assumed a public form, and in a quarter not the most desirable, for I am sure if the church-going people in the vicinity of Taradale had known their minister was going to deliver an electioneering address from the pulpit yesterday instead of a sermon that a great many that were there would have remained at home, for people expect to hear different subjects; in a church on a Sunday, and I think further that a pulpit is a wrong place for a minister to tell his flock who they should vote for, for on all public questions there are always two opinions (which it is right there should be), and a congregation who may differ from their '
minister on political questions cannot rise in the church to argue the matter, therefore I say, in conclusion, that it was in bad taste for a minister to deliver an electioneering address from the pulpit instead of using the church for the purpose it was built for.—l am, etc., Cbuhchman. September 5, 1881.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3179, 6 September 1881, Page 2
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