Sabbath Excursions
In the debate which occurred r in-th« Legislative Council when the Speakerlaid on the table a letter from the Christchurch Ministers' Association, recording its "most earnest protest against the employment of public property and pnblio funds by the members of both Houses of Parliament on Sabbath excursions." Sir G. S. Whitmore said, with regard to the correspondence laid on the table, he oould not but think that — in a colony like this, where the national system of education was secular, where there was no State Church, where bishops had not seats in that Chamber, and where no secular authority was given to the clergy— it was a pity that a number of clergy men, representing a minority of the population, should joia in a remonstrance of this character to Parliament. He was very glad to see that the great body of the W catholic clergy of this country of both religions were not represented in the paper which had been read. He thought it very desirable that there should be some mode by which they could express their feeling that it was not proper they should be lectured in this, way by the ministers of any 'religious denomination whatever.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 62, 4 November 1884, Page 2
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201Sabbath Excursions Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 62, 4 November 1884, Page 2
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