DEFIANT CHAPLAIN
DECIDES TO IGNORE ARMY ORDERS “A COLOSSAL BLUNDER” LONDON, Sunday, rhe ‘Daily Mail” states that Dr. John Carlile, ex-president of the Baptist Union and now officiating as chaplain of the Royal Air Force ,has decided to ignore the orders issued by the Army Council to chaplains not to offer prayers for persecuted Christians in Russia. Dr. Carlile says: “I am a chaplain and I shall offer pi-ayers on March 16. The Government can take my wings” referring to his Air Force badges—“and do what it likes with them. I am perfectly sure that hundreds "of chaplains wijl take up that position. “I most respectfully suggest that the Government immediately withdraw the order. It was a colossal blunder and an offence to Britain’s free churches.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 912, 4 March 1930, Page 9
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