§ SIR J. JARDINE (Roxburghshire)To ask the Secretary of State for India, what arrangements, if any, have been in force in the Jullunder Cantonment to enable the 2nd Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders to have Divine Service according to Presbyterian rites; whether they have been allowed to worship in a consecrated church belonging to the Government of India; and whether they were allowed in that church to solemnise Holy Matrimony and Holy Communion.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) I would refer the hon. Member to my Answer to his second Question on the same subject. I have no more precise information as to the arrangements made. As the hon. Member is aware, the Gordon Highlanders have now been moved to Calcutta, where there is a Presbyterian church
§ SIR J. JARDINETo ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a licence was given by the Bishop of Lahore for the holding of divine service according to the rites of the Church of Scotland, and will he say whether that licence has been withdrawn; 1289 and whether the removal of the Gordon Highlanders from Jullundur to Calcutta has been ordered with, reference to the absence of church, accommodation for Presbyberians at Jullundur.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) I understand that the Bishop of Lahore authorised the use of the Anglican church at Jullundur for Presbyterian services other than the celebration of Holy Communion. I am not aware that the licence has been withdrawn. But orders have now been given that Scottish regiments shall not be posted, save in a temporary emergency, to military stations where there is not a Presbyterian or unconsecrated church for their use; and the transfer of the Gordon Highlanders to Calcutta was presumably directed in accordance with those orders.