Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 21 June 1899, page 8


THE REV- GEORGE GLADSTONE

HIS SERIIONS DENOUNCED. i SCATHING RESOLUTIONS CARRIED.

NATHALIA, Tuesday.

A large and representative meeting to protest against the Rev G Gladstone's sermons was held in the public hall to-night, people from all parts of the Goulburn Valley attending.. Mr T. H Tuizo was voted to the chair

Mr I C Vanstavorcn moved

"That in the opinion of this meeting the serious delivered in the Church of England at Nathalia by the Rev. G. Gladstone and slanderous, untruthful, and altogether uncalled for, and me cul

related to do an undeserved injury to the

real union of our town and district We therefore express our unqualified disgust, disapprobation, and abhorrence to such a gross abuse of his privileges as a clergy

man "

It was the duty of every man who had any respect or feeling for woman to enter a strong protest against the remarks of Mr Gladstone i hey were a disgrace, as he had in his sermons spared neither the living nor the demi, painting the place of nothing but a den of infamy J lion benefit societies and also been assailed Are they to be thus handled by the main? (A t once- Ko ) Mr.

John Roxburgh seconded the resolution Perhaps the man was getting too tonight publicity He (Mr l!o\buigli) had attended his church he was sorry to say, but after listening to one of his sermons he had left Mr Gladstone is til slandered then wives and then daughters, until it was time action was taken He had his doubts about any lady friend living supplied the information to the preacher, as he stated Those who had daughters and prices were giving them held up to it in time, and he hoped that military partlymeat would be meted out to the offender

Mr G J Deere attended on behalf of the residents of M Hughan to leave their HViiipnthicH to the meeting, and trusted that some good would result from the page lecture. He also spoke to the mo

tion

Mr W McCormack, as a resident of the town, protested against the manner in which Mr. (Gladstone has assumed their normal and Several attempts had pie foolish been made to remove Mr Gladstone prior to those- mci mons, but without any less Nott last week advertised throughtout Vustinlattia-in 1 it, throughand the whole world a place where nothing but wantonness was i inn it If they could not get the Bishop to (deal with him V tout- Iloiscuhip lamb )then let the picketing of name he adopted. Whole the great mistake had been said lies in ('sentiment mt, these sermons The attendance

at church

Councillor 1 lington, m spent mg to the motion said that he attended with great iron and sorrow As a husband and father, he entered a protest against such disgrace fit coming on the part of a true)

man If his cloth did not protect him, there was not a man amongst them if he would not know what to do The only are dress they had, however, tins in the li nuts of the Bishop having been intimately te qiinintcdvvitliEoiiic of the deceased per sons who had been slandered, he could deny the statements made He held in his hand a letter from one thing no man's father and mother, in which they expressed their pain at seeing such a statement as appealed in the just is, as third daughter had not passed mi) horn this life in the win departed He (the speaker) keenly felt for them Mr

Gladstone b remarks about the trees and d fighters made his blood boil II that could not get the ladies they required from the boil boil thin they must protect the church Dctcumncd punishment must be meted out to the old rules

Councillor 111 room said in li til some ten miles to attend this meeting, as tin are sensitive of the Kotupna district He could endorse the remarks of the tennis sealers Mr Gladstone had send list of then dust! it, and endeavoured to licence them to the lowest possible deuce J in his (usl Sellinger he had not kept Gi then title

With reference to the depths home drunk, as described by the preacher, they were his, to say the least of them One man who was hinted to have died from think was at the present time living on Phillip

Island

All Maitland also spoil a as an old real

treat If Mr Gladstone's statement that he? Information was supplied by a lady friend was Hue, then in company veins anything but the best

Mr TG him, as one who attended the Masons' hill with his wife, challenged Mr Gladstone to prove his station as if he had his due he should he publicly him so

whipped it was of it that time that such a man should be removed from this city

met

Senior constable Hartshorn stated that he had been in the service for the last in winds and line has been stationed in seen in districts The multi his (list mine orders are well cellulitis of citizens The li in not seen than in Nathalia De I nee of no stir h tiling ns dish is (1 by Mr Gladstone in his recent sermons and he protested that their women folk should he has til as

to unions

Mr H P' Brown said that he had been snatched" out of the church by Mr Gladstone by small means he had no idea in his pullet 12 months ago His ch Pullet Miles nothing short of le divisions and it is de lighted v, not only to the earth in which he was invited to the whole township and district He trusted that measures would be adopted to him him length I

All 1' J! Kallinda stated lied that he had been to a mean number of balls in the dayof ill, and had never seen any impropriety out in at any) time

Ali '1 K' MunU endorsed the previous sten) ers running He ihnllen|,cil Ali. Gladstone to prove his statements

The motion was carried unanimously)

KILLING OF' CHURCHES WATERS

N V'J HALF A, Tuesday

some fifty members of the Church of England met subsequently to take what steps are necessary to have the Rev. Mr Gladstone removed. It was decided to prepare a petition for signature throughout the district, to be presented to the Bishop at as early a date as possible Councillor Eddington moved

that letters from this meeting he sent to the families attended, sympathieslong with him in the ii manner and shalldefend statements circulated about them, which mc wholly without foundation

'This was seconded by Mr H A Allan and can use It was

decided that comes of the resolutions be sent to Mr Gladstone, as the meeting did not wish to take any undue ndI inn stage of his

PROTEST I ROAMm! VUSJ HALT AT

K VI VI S

At a meeting of the local branch of the Australian Natives' Association, held to-night, the following resolution was far-

out -

' that tins brain h solemnly protest against the diKiiiiiiiRiii«, assertions made against the loud burnell of tin A by the Rev. Mr Gladstone. incomes out of Holy 'Trinity church, Nathalia, with a guilty to tin mining hull recently lulu, and particularly against the false and the (general character given to the women of Australia and district "I