METHODIST CONFERENCE.
RELIGIOUS TRAINING FOR CHILDREN. (JBESS ASSOCIATION TELEOE.Ut.) WELLINGTON, February 24. The Methodist Conference to-dfty approved of the establishment of a central Youth Office in 1931, and also that the Young People's Board be moved to Wellington in 1931. Viewing with concern the fact that approximately 90,000 children in New Zealand receive no definite Christian training, the Conference recommended that in accordance with the view of the Conference on national religious education the Methodist Churches throughout Nctf Zealand join in a cooperative effort with other Churches wherever practicable to recruit more children for the Sunday Schools. Congratulations were tendered to the Revs. J. J. Lewis, W. J. Williams, and C. E. Ward on having attained the diamond jubilee of their ministry.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19862, 25 February 1930, Page 15
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