RECTOR AND OBJECTORS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 212, 16 October 1916, Page 2

RECTOR AND OBJECTORS.

At a patriotic meeting at Bath the Rev. C. W. Wilson, chaplain to. the forces, rector of Walcot, who has hem through the Gallipoli campaign, s that as a clergyman of the Church of England, as a minister'' of the Gospel, as a Christian man, he denounced the conduct of the conscientious objector as utterly .cowardly and unworthy of manhood. Let them put their consciences in their pockets and come up and lie on the bare grund under shot and shell, sweat under the blazing sun be covered with filth and grime till no friend could recognise them, chew hard biscuit and bully beef, be scorched in the Eastern sun, and see if such treatment did not produce a manhood which was absolutely absent fmra them at the present time. If the co . scientious objector had the face u stand up after and say he was not < coward there was no hope for him; T must be the lunatic asylum that lie needed.