HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18185, 23 September 1924, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONS.

METHODIST WOMEN'S AUXILIARY. The annual meeting of -the Methodist Women's Auxiliary of Home and Foreign Missions was held in the Durham street schoolroom yesterday afternoon. The J. A. Fleßher) .presided over a good attendance. The seventeenth annual report stated that the general monthly meetings had been weU attended and some interesting addresses on mission work'had been given, fhe annual conference was held in Timaru in October. Several of the out.ying churches weie moym* in the direction of forming in mission wow. Var.ous special efforw ha<l been mado during the year tor tne purpose of raising tunas. .„'•.„ The annual. report of the honorary organiser and despatch officer was read and The balance-sheet showed a credit of £32 6b 6d. Tho total income was £3Ol 12s 3d. Mi Ffrank Thompson, 'in nuoving thj adoption of the reports, expressed his pleasure at the large attendance. The balancesheet was exceedingly creditable and the report showed what women could do when they combined. The Mayor said that splendid work was being done by the womer of the church in connexion with mission mutt/re. During the last few years, great strides had been made. A church that ceased to be a missionary church, soon became a "misßing' church. During the afternoon a hymn was sung in Chinese by the Kev. and Mrs G'anville, of the China Inland Mission, who also' gavo addresses, dealing with their work as missioners. At the conclusion of the addresses, afternoon tea was dispensed. ,