METHODIST DISTRICT SYNOD

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27444, 2 September 1954, Page 3

METHODIST DISTRICT SYNOD

• i YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS ] i Th,e synod of the North Canterbury ■ Methodist District resumed its representative sessions at the Durham Street < Church, Christchurch, yesterday. Reports of the youth department, temperance, removal expenses fund, public questions, and faith and order committees were received. Approval of the move by the New Zealand Booksellers’ Association to examine ways of raising the standard and contents of magazines, was expressed ill the report of the public questions committee. The, synod commended endeavours to encourage better standards of literature, and recommended that the committee should continue its inquiries on the subject. As the result of a report by the public questions committee that the film, “A Man Called Luther,” had been well reviewed by compteent Methodist leaders overseas, the synod passed a recommendation, moved by the Rev. A. K. Petch, that “the synod should make representations to the appropriate film organisation, expressing the keen interest of Methodist people in the screening of the film, and assuring them of our support for such a screening.” The jubilee celebrations of the Methodist Bible class movement will be inaugurated at this year’s meeting of the New Zealand Conference, according to the report of the youth department, presented by the Rev. R. H. Allen. The summer youth conference at Morton and the Easter camps in 1955 will have a special jubilee character. The financial objective of the jubilee will be to establish, enlarge and equip camp sites in the district The Bible class unions were former in 1904, and the first camp was held at Easter, 1905. A recommendation that all districts should support the jubilee project was passed. The Rev. F. A. Willmot, of Trinity Congregational Church, gave the address at the synod service in the 1 Durham Street Church last evening. Final reports and recommendations will be presented to the synod today.