BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12937, 17 October 1907, Page 9

BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

+ (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, October 16. The Baptist Conference resolved, with a view to celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the Union, to rai*e not leee than £1000 to establish an annuity fund for agod and infirm ministers. It was agreed to invite the Rev. Wrn. Lamb to take up work at Gisborne for two years, at £200 por annum. The financial statement showed estimated receipts £1000, estimated expenditure £1028. Of tho latter £860 was allocated to Homo Mission work The annual meeting of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union elected the following officers:— President, Mr« H. M. Smeetou; treasurer and secretary, Miss Spedding; vice-presidents: Otago, Mrs Mason; Canterbury, Mrs Thornton; Wellington, Mrs Blackburne; Auckland, Mr* Kirkwood. The Conference instructed the Executive to move in the matter of tho formation of a Baptist jChurch in the Congregational church at Timaru. with a viow to a settlement of tho united cause. Thq Baptist Union resolved to take over the Remuera Children's Homo, hitherto successfully carried on locally. Tho Foreign Missionary vSocieties , annual report told of a year of successful work in India. The Now Zealand Mission had been working in the centre of tho most disturbed district! in India. The anti-foreign feeling had affected the work to snmo degree. Medical work had been effectively carried on in tho hospital at Chandpcore, under Bγ. North. Tho value of the work was shown by tho valuable gifts received from the Assam and Bengal Railway Company, and the jute tinm operating in the town. Kqually gmwl work had been done in th<> dispensary at MrahtnanlKim, under Miw lfc*ckingeile. Every department of missionary activity had bten vigorously prosecuted. The treasurer's report showed that the deficit of £357. with which the year began,, had been cleared off by a week of self-denial. The general income amounted to £1909. and the expenditure to £2003, leaving « small deficit, which had since been reduced.