London, June 15.
A strong appeal to the Churches to avoid interference in politics was made by the Prime Minister in an address to a religious gathering at Portmadoc, He said that great controversies in the immediate future would wage round the question of relations between capital and labour. If debate in that connexion were introduced into the Churches, it would inevitably divide and destroy the Churches for the greater purposes for which they ought to exist. Mr. Lloyd George referred to a recent conference of highly-placed divines, which had expressed an opinion as regards the hest method of settling the coal dispute, as an example of the mischievous interference by a religious organization in the task of the Government. The Irish question, he said, was also an unfitting subject for debate at religious conferences.
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