The Western Call
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2012-09-14
issued: 1910-10-21
description: Published in the Interests of Greater Vancouver and the Western People.
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note: ^legislative /^;,-v {ctoria, e-S>sJ ARE YOU ON OUR L!ST? NO! WHY? Vancouv ir City, Mount Pleasant, South Vancouver and The Province fOLUMEII VANCOUVER, British Columbia, OCT. 21 1916. No. 24 CONGRESS ! TV P. Q' MP. The Anajlo-Saxon race has ever heen the champion of religion* \ liberty. We believe as a people in allowing each person to entertain whatever views he may wiah on all religious questions, and this generous attitude has dorie much towards the advancement of civilisation and the moral elevation of the national character. &o more striking example of this large minded-liberality need be sought for than that which has been given in the recent Euchar- istic Congress in Montreal and the former Congress held in England/ It was a measure of surprise to some of our foreign Roman Catholic friends that distinctly Protestant countries, such as England and Canada, should not only allow, but should show sympathetic interest in the convention. It is one of .the most attractiv# features of Protestantisrii that they insist upon? perfect freedom of .conscience, both towards those who are of like faith and to those ^who differ. ;. :,- 7 ',.../.-) .,/;..w ,,, -;,:,t. ���������...,.. ,k,... .; ��������� ��������� ,.:= ���������������..���������.; 7 7 Theipe is ^an aualoaw������*char*4eriatic iniourpolitwal lite, gen- terallvi a?*eokincr we in^st uponabsolute independenceof church and |at������ta3n*i������ of religion andf polities, this ;pjjn^iple has, not always^; [obtaiti������<T, in" fact. Vt:bhiy''T>������rtiafly'o^tainif''-raVEngland even toda.yy" (but in Canada for aWut fifty yearsJhis principle has obtained and [has been demonstrated^^^^���������innhitely preferable to the former al- lliance of the church and state. . ��������� I It was therefore, *ith no small surprise that the people of Can- Jada learned that the Hon. Speaker of the House of Commons of ['Canada, Mareil, attended the Eucharistic procession in his official Jcapacitv as Speaker of the House, and in his r…
note: Print Run: 1910-1916 Frequency: Weekly Published by Dean and Goard from 1910-01-07 to 1910-04-01, Terminal City Press from 1910-04-08 to 1915-12-24, and then McConnells from 1915-12-31 to 1916-06-30.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0188190
language: English
lat: 49.2500000
long: -123.1167000
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Terminal City Press
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text