PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 5

PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE.

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CONCLUSION OP THE SESSION

The Conference, after sitting until 2 a.m. this morning, resumed its sessions at 9.30 a.m., when, after devotional exercises, a great deal of miscellaneous business was dealt with. It was unanimously agreed that the New Zealand Primitive .Methodist Church should celebrate the twentieth century by (1) a week of special services in the month of September, with a view to the conversion of those persons in our congregations who are at present unsaved; ()l) that a fund be formed for the purpose of assisting young men, who give promise of usefulness, in their studies for our ministry: ('■>) that we appeal for grants of land with a view to the establishment of an orphanage, and the extension of our churches; (4) that we establish a mission in some large (•(Mitre where we are not yet represented; (.")) that efforts shall be made to extinguish our church debts, and thai donors have the privilege of subscribing to one or more of all these objects'; (0) that the following be the agents set apart to visit circuits and advocate the claims of the scheme: Revs. .1. Guy (Otago). C. E. Ward (Canterbury), .1. Dawson (Wellington), J. Crocker (Taranaki), YV. S. Potter (Auckland). After dealing with several matters of a routine character and Ihe reading of the minutes the conference of 1901 closed its sessions.