PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH CONFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12140, 15 January 1908, Page 4

PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH CONFERENCE.

1 i Dundein, Jan. 14. 1 The Primitive Methodist Church b Conference was contnued to-day. 1 The statistics showed— 39 ministers, one circuit mssioriaxy, , four Home . missionaries, 178 local preachers, 58 . class leaders, 2,882 church members, . 9,972 church hearers, 75 church 3 buildings, 40 parsonages, 89 other 3 preaching places, ofauroh properties l valued at £73,269, and insured for JG32,165. Seventeen deaths of church members took place last year. A plan was agreed to for the holding of a mission throughout the. Dominion r by the James Flanagan, M J London, during his present visit to New Zealand. There was a big at- . tendance at the Young People's ' rally. Special addresses were given by Rev. E. Drake, Mr A. Varney, j Mr Holland, and the Rev. James 1 Flanagan.