Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1923. RELIGION IN POLITICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2548, 27 February 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1923. RELIGION IN POLITICS.

TIIE fuel that religion has been introduced into polities in this country was deplored by Mr CL Mitchell, ex-M.P. for Wellington South, when speaking at a complimentary social tendered to him at Wellington last week. Mr Mitchell said: “I am a Protestant —perhaps by accident of birth —but, ladies and gentlemen, I do not believe that it is right to bring our religion into our public lives at all. It is something sacred between ourselves and our Maker, and something far too sacred to be brought into our public controversies and divisions. I believe that those who do obtrude it into our public life will create feeling that will bring a great deal of trouble in the future. Let us remember that we are living in the one country and in the same city, working side by side, that we worship the same Cod, and that in the end, we will be judged by the same Cod. I would ask, as a Protestant, that both sides should keep the religion that they hold, and rightly hold, where religion rightly belongs and where it properly belongs—in the heart of the individual, in the Church, and in the home.”