METHODIST CHURCH.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17428, 12 April 1922, Page 5

METHODIST CHURCH.

ST. iOBANS CIRCUIT. The quarterly meeting of ito St.. AJbiM circuit was held on Monday, ; tne Bev.J. Napier Milne presiding. A mi received from the Rev. T. a Burton expressing pleasure at his appointment to Edgewarl W, Md . .intimating that he would commenca his ministry on Easter Sunday. The balance-sheet showcl an £3lO 6e 3d. Over £55 had **VT«cfir,ts the parsonage and ten per cent, of receipts allocated to a special reserve fund, leaving a credit balance of £2 lis. Special committees were appointed ea follows: -Home Mission, Messrt* Thos Jones, W Livingstone, J.. H. White, and A. D..H"T (convener); Foreign Missions, Misses A. Freeman. Lucius, Croasdale, Fairweather, U. Sn Mesirs J. E. Wojrih.m, Haymah, B. JiLiles, D. Stallard, and E. *. Christian (convener). It was *b*»*™%. resolved to place on record the energetic services of tVßev. H. Ford * h % h " r "* nt 0 ? been transferred to Auckland. A motion ot sympathy with a former pastor, the Bev. W C Oliver,, in hie serious illness, was aereed to. Hearty congratulations were conto thf Chairman on his. appointment as editor of the "Methodist Tana.. **• following resolution was unammously car-ried;-"The quarterly meetuig of «» »■ Albans circuit desires to extend to the Bev. W. J. Williams its appreciation ofthelong and faithful service rendered to the Methodist Church - editor of the> journal. By hiie strenuous and dignified supSort of all that Methodosm stands for his and powerful advocacy of the of the liquor traffic, his unceasing hostility to the arri his unswerving msintenance of Protestant prinPlaced, the Methooist Church under a deep obligation.