PRESENTATION TO REV. J. K. ELLIOTT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 315, 30 September 1908, Page 8

PRESENTATION TO REV. J. K. ELLIOTT.

Tlie twenty-first anniversary of. the Rev. J. K. Elliott's,ministry at the Kent Terrace Presbyterian \ Church was:- ; 'celebra.ted last evening at a conversazione 1 held.in the schoolroom. During the evening - Mr: D. Robertson presented _the pastor /with a roller-top desk and a chair, also a'case of cutlery. In making the presentation,': Mr. Robertson stated tha.t donations had. beon limited to from Is. to 55., and eveh'at. those figures the treasurer of the fund ' had t 'received more money than necessary for what the committee originally had in view. .Referring to the chair chosen, Mr. Robertson remarked, with the Americans,; that if it to get the best out of a man and His brain, his body must be placed in a. comfortable position. As to the cutlery,. it was a means towards supplying the inner man, which had to bo looked after if steam "was filing to be kept up. The speaker weiit on-to deal with tho history of the Kent. Terrace Church, pointing out' that the congregation dated from 1886, when a largely-signed requisition was presented to the Rev. J. K. Elliott asking him to conduct religious' services with a view to formihg a hew congregation in "Wellington East-to keep' pace with tho increasing population of Wellington. Mr. Elliott. had'arrived about;'a year previously, having come to the colony on account of his wife's'health. The induction of . Mr. Elliott took place on October 5, 1886. On May 20, 1896, the memorial storib" of■ the present church was .laid, by the/.late .Mr: John li' Lean. The contract price, : with extras, had been £2500, and the ; . debt, at this date was £700. Some years'ba.ck. a branch Sunday School was opened Vat Roseneath, and Sunday services organised, aiid last year a new charge, the Evans Bay Church, had been formed in that and adjoining districts. A movement was now on foot VuT'erect a new Sunday School and Bible Glass'rooms, with lecture hall and other necessary buildings.