PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 21 November 1914, Page 5

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

CER.MAXV AS PRESERVER OP PJJACE. BIBLE ix SCHOOLS. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. Dunedin, Last Xigth. At a meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly this afternoon, the committee set up. to consider the uuestion of international peace reported ' having communicated with thu churches in En«land, Scotland, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Franco, also the German Lutheran Churches, through Dr. Dryander, Court Chaplain to the German Emperor, and chfef preacher at Berlin Cathedral, who passed on the communication to Dr. Voigts, president of the Evangelical Supremo Church Council in Berlin, and the highest authority in church matters m Prussia. In a reply, received eight days after war was declared bv England, Dr. Dryander stated that all Christians were in favor of universal peace, hut there was room for difference of opinion ! as to whether this could be done by a j peace alliance, as only a very small i section of the German public or church | would be dispbsed to join such an asao- ; ciation. The writer referred to the conviction that Germany could preserve the peace of the world as an actual fact, only in virtue of her military power, and was strong enough to prevent other nations going to war. The committee recommended that the Sunday before. Christmas be observed as "Peace Sun-' day." The report was adopted. Th« report of the Bible-in-Schools Committee urged members and adherents of the churches to vote for Parliamentary candidates supporting a referendum on the question. The report wa a adopted. It was decided that ministers he requested to bring the Bible-in-schools question before congregations on December 6th.