PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12961, 14 November 1907, Page 9

PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

"' '.ftt* AVIATION' TBLEGBAiI.) 1 It t ivr.To\ November 13. »•** J r.!l* That in future any »^ terW diS with «R-ci«l «""»»- ppee bytory v> geuteu.' "*'f?w*t u.iJ-i«r.-» -ho,i. i Wllev. U- McLennan (Dunedin) j≥l for promotion in tho uhurdi, £Kw 2c:iloikl minora tho pro■S*rid of, but tho Church in Atw Cliwl wild not supply ite own «.<cd* fr™« What was tliu eciiso of retusLi n-cn who ,vci« want«l for Ik hSw Zealand who tho Church MdSo»W were tally quehliedi; lie land tho WHombly thai tho Colonial gjittee exercised the greatest euro A. Cameron (Dunedin), '•Making m o colonial-born mimstor, linreewu "inifiolt very etiOngly against mmUra «>«»»« iuto , tho U<»'»mon Zm abroad, except through the a*Ilmblr. Ho knew something of the iMroiMW of men who hud been cora■teionod by tho Church of Scotland. Uβ would say their work was not up te that of the seventh standard. Ho -id jt without fear of contradiction, that if it was not a matter ol health or family considerations, good men did . not come out from tho Homo church. ■Itw«a because there wns not a charge •kr them at Home, and they wished to cftrao out to New Zealand with a ttrtain halo of romnnco about them, 'md tho idea tliat they wore better than tho men here, and they just drop'Md into the be-rt chtirches. fTbe -Rev. J. 1C Elliott (Wellington) tiihwl tho Church of Now Zealand to "eteud tho came courtoiy to tho Church it Home ac woe extended to ministers Jα tbis country. If tho assembly thongbt young colonial ministore iieedtd "protection," then it wae casting »alar upon thorn. They could etand en their own f«'t. , ,„ 1M The Rev. A. Whyto (Havolook North) 'deniod that ho came out for hie health «r for. family reasons, but with tho intention of doing whet was beet in •th* interests of tho Church. The Her. R. L. Walker (Auckland), (peeking with much warmth, said ho M not W*mo to Now Zealand for his tarfth, but by Imperial promptings. Hβ believed he could do good work in this country. That woe why he left ScotHUia , . Hβ came out propared to go Into the backblocks of tho Dominion. It was by more accident he was appointed to an important city church, ft ww groaly unfair for Mr Cameron (to'Hiert thai men oame out from •Heme to pick np ell the "plums." ■ The Rev. Mr Cameron: I refer to Uμ put. - Tie R«t. Mr Walker: We are get'tiog restive -under the domination of ■ fb« Church of Otago. , i Th* Rev. Mr Fraeor (excitedly): this it not a Very nice thing to cay. j Tie Rev. Mr Walkor: It may come , itont jet that the union will be dismlwd, If we ero going to have Otago 'lirart down our throats at every turn. (Oh, oh!) Mr Walker went on to cay Jftat the result of thia hostility to iinUtom from Homo would be that ;m good men would come out from «Hoi»e, that- only tho riffraff of the Id'f'irtrT would come, all the tnprng "idd bAtiQ of the Cloth. "Had t betm/' he continued, "this law in tht Church of New Zealand, I would Hi have come out hero at all. 1 could \m got • church in Australia or Gaiuda and been warmly welcomed ttitere." <V The Rer. Mr Peterson said no one re* more anxiotn then ho to have the 'ml of New Zealand-born men in the .mlnwtry, but he realised that there pref* not 'mffleieat young men offering [or the ministry. Tho work wns crying; out for more men. It was absurd }» tey that men came out from Home :tbp run not suitably qualified. He '•fIW not know one euohjpaesed by the BownMl Committeo. The men who ij , " l, were la good health and jtttntedl by the highest motive* in the for Christ. Hβ did not come *«t for Hie fiake of his henlth, and \i* rjp itill ebb to do plenty of work *■*• Hβ Irft c large, crowded, and (I jP«eperouj church to com* here. ±TM motion by the R«v. James Pater»n w«e lost 43jrotinre for it and 63 KJ2 r r F . r, " er, » motion that L+£M \°* commissions SiS«SP,X' fe,, ih * oonstitirtion •W werkins of tho proposed fire insurm?ii wore .'ntroduced. Th^y $*&%%%?§• u P° n thoTO of the w«»yen Methodist Ohu«jh. After .Urguajje Aawdation of Dunedin. «c roport on wangolicaJ union and •S2^? tlOa et*t»d:—"lt may be Vj*s£f .fated that tho flmt m«rc S?lffi»- IBIOD1 BIOD of the Churches of JuSi** Jt w I U te tho fSrt tllllSW ° n to B l >ccula to, but WS ie Dop»rtmeirt could not ■ fT "S* 1 »Wi for luembors. *«Wl^li 011 Of ,vi n«*ers «>lemnis- !• *• &mtS?« d,Torc ? d referred »• SJPrT A» n f xt 'Wmbly. <l te ' •''•t l rowed th© "^P^ l ' be sub4a . I>jr a majority of 1011 «V . Writy iswaS?i to «ad«*TonT to ob;>ftCr o tho . f'J ,^1 o f SabMac mad? t« 2' Bp<?<:,al reference be--*jWlfoJ;; a " P«W» ai» M o. 'ftabliag f*^ 8 "ttitudo against ■ «*m' """•ectioii w -if« cliurc-h '4l?fc mb jy. the » clcw.,l after an towebw * et at next