BIBLE-BURNING.
AN ALLEGED ADMISSION
A MEETING .SEETHING WIT INDIGNATION.
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received Id.I!) p.m., Feb. 23.
.SYDNEY, February 2li. The. Secretary of the Methodb M'ssim. cabled to an iudependci source at Suva, and received the fo lowing reply : “ Father Rougier admits burning ease filled with useless Namosi We le)an 'Testaments and hymn-hooks.
The cable was read at the conference of missionary authorities, who were seething with indignation.
The President moved : “ That the. Conference expresses intense indignation at the burning of New Testaments and hymn-books' hv instructions from priests of tlie Roman Catholic Ohurcn in Fiji ; regards it as a fiagrant insult, not, only to the Methodist, people of Fiji pvho number fully ninety pur cent., of the population, hut, to our common Protcstant■sir,; expresses sincere sympathy with the Fijian Church in their present didi cullies.”
Ar: amendment was moved to delay action until full official information was received.
'J fie motion .was carried unanimousfy..
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 827, 27 February 1903, Page 2
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