ANTI-GOD CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1929, Page 5

ANTI-GOD CAMPAIGN

MEETING OF PROTEST.

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this at 9.40 a.m.) London, Dec. 20.

The Earl of Glasgow presided at the Albert Hall protest meeting. Rev Archibald Fleming opening with a prayer, was followed by a minute’s silencje in remembrance of Russian sufferers for the faith and singing “The Old Hundredth.” The Elarl of Glasgow declared the meeting was the inception of a world wide crusade against the savage attempt to stamp out Chrisfianiy. Brenpport asserted the persecution of Christians was the most bitter since the. Roman Empire. Twentysix Archbishops, Bishops and 6775 Priests were martyred between 191820, and thousands of laymen and women suffered death. The Soviet was trying to crush religion and blot out the name of God with ingenuity and cruelty but the Commissioner of the Interior who declared war on the Bible, could not succeed where Voltaire and all atheists of Europe failed. Maitre Theodore Aubert, from Gen--eva.i described /the enforce|nent,s ns terrorism resulting in five hundred executions between October Ist and November 15th. The Solvetsky concentration camp on the "White Sea, guarded by two thousand members of the Cheka, was fuller than ever of wretched captives arrested for the faith, Including three hundred clergy. In the midst of prebendary Gough’s appeal for British intervention interrupters interjected from the gallery. “Lie down,” shouted the audience. Gough quietly rejoining, “Let (the Heathen rage.” An interjector who stood up and made a declamation in Yiddish while the Chief Rabbi Hertz was speaking, was ejected by stewards.