HAWKE'S BAY SEAT.
.SIR J. FINDLAY'S CAMPAIGN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Feb. 27. Sir John Findlay, in a speech last night, strongly opposed the conscription of the clergy. He said it was a most deiicate question whether we should force a minister of religion to go into the trenches and kill the enemy, and, il persisted in, there would be the most serious trouble. The rights of conscientious objectors had been admitted and provided for in the conscience clause in the Military Service Act. The ministers were doing excellent war work in New Zealand, better than they could do ii forced into the trenches to spill human blood against the tenets of their creeds. When we found men standing firm upon their convictions the time had come to pause. The consolation erf religion was dear to many, and while it was being sought by bereaved mothers and wives there was a eall for ministers of religion here, and while the call was heard he should oppose the calling up of ministers of religion to fight. The Hawke's Bay branch of the Catholic Federation held a meeting and passed resolutions in similar terms to those passed in other centres in protest against the conception of clergy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1917, Page 2
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205HAWKE'S BAY SEAT. Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1917, Page 2
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