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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 49, 26 February 1903, Page 4

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BIBLE BURNING. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydxey, February 25. Dr. Brown, secretary of the Foreign Missions, stated that both Cardinal Moran and his priests should be devotedly thankful that the Protestant mis-io were far from a failure in Fiji, for if their precepts had not been followed by the great mass of the Fijians, ■ she bible burners, who bad outraged ! the most sicred feelings of 90 per cent > of the converts, would long ago havj felt the weight of the Fijian club. If i these had not boon an outbreak ovar 1 •-.be present trouble, the Government of , Fiji must thank the mis-ionanes who ■ iaught the p&opla to be loyal and obei dient subjec s. i Melbourne, February 25. s Rev Fitc'nett, referring to the Biblo ' burning, i a word on a matter which thrillf us all s with anger—tha spectacle of burning 1 Bibles iu Fiji. There is only one ' church that would burn Bibles, and i that is the church that burned th p m, - who gave the world the English Bible, s It is the koifct of that church t hat it i never changes through the renturies ) and tha sjioke of the Bibles in Fiji bear witness to the truth of that j > claim. j