WELLINGTON PRESBYTERY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 921, 14 September 1910, Page 6

WELLINGTON PRESBYTERY.

MONTHLY MEETING. Tho/.usual. ■ monthly'/'.meeting:- of.; the Wellington? Presbytery;-: was held yester- ■ day, Tho Bev. K:' Jjiglis ; (Moderator) presided, 'and thero wero /sixteen- ■: other members in-'attendance. 7: : : .M Tho Moderator 'Under, the notice of, tho. meeting/the fact that tlic com-mission-.;flppomted; ' Bay hadiound .tlimg.S;.there»in':a,i satisfactory : 'condition;P'riero:'we'ro ; ''peculiar' difficiil■.ties'''in' -the :way'- of/the; w6rk, ';but; : never-;. theles'a ' good J progress : was i: biing. - made. under the'guidance^' W the ; Rev. 1 .W. Douglas,-M.A. \-> r y, . The report was adopted. .■' : .-'■'The-'Rev'.' Jas.-'Patersbn;. reported.-that; ..the';committediviippointdd,'; to liio : '(Jlmrlus Pbrtor' (Werfeyan)-for/admission'toi'the ministry: 'bf-Ktho'/"3?resbyterlan'^'"Chvrc]r/;(lindi : -.''fp'und. ; ..his :credentiilß 'entirely satisfactory, . and :Tecommende.d;.;that' the >usual ibatibnUo' dispel ministry-'in''ithe'.TYeslcyan ' Church/;: had; : been '■• distinguished';'by-superiorj; ability, • ekci?UMt',jDn'nffißtt-'.'cn>racteii- .'good'-rifts' : as:.a-;.:preache'r,;.'and-, earnest.-. evangelical, spirit. On ,':the': motion:"of;. :the;. Ee'f.' JV. :l'atersbri;y seconded, by,..the., Hev. ;J., .Ken-' hedy.;EUiott;-:it.T was;: ordereds'lthat;.. the report' bp. ndbptnd, ( .'and. ; :fbrwarded,. 'with V recommendation,;• t'p, ,the ; y,: General ; ' : same. V,-L : . : r; ; ; // V/; V- ;;'., :::.Someydissatirfactibn''.was*;{eipreKed: at: ,iho : action-of'.the .Waikato'Presbytery., in in. .regard .to- the,': performance'^of /thC'-'sacrament::oi: ■ ruarriage 'by sir.:-',home /missionary :at Cai-: '..lerton, in .the- Wellirigtohi-district;-,uud outside tho home : missioner's '• proper .-jurisdiction.: ::Tlip..l?,eT) : .^;':j. ,: ,Comrio 'sug-' ;g«t(y'.7tHat..';vthe:Vmatter.v beV.'re'ferred .: to, the :'Gtjheral - 'Assembly, and a resolution I toithis', carried without. | .''aiMcnt;::bW-tho'Vmotioii'-.piE. , 'tlie':'Hev. J. R. Bllibtfcy 1 seconded-byi ;tlie : ; E6y: j/.,Gibs'on f Mesarfi'.ißayidson jahd"Campbell,.'waited'upon the' • Presbytery.' to . seek -' aii'tho'rify for' the carrying:Out;bf IcertainVadditions'"and im:provehierits to' St.- James's .Sunday SchoblT. , room.VAdelaide, .Jload.'-andi that permission', 'purp'6Se.";. ! :' that: ': :the. total .cost vWO-ald ;be. : ;'.C)spo;;.of which, the' '.;3nm:;6f?(ii24;;was). already over! '-^100>-Kajd"^besej^'£w6inisfed; •' and another •;^}pO.:. ! .'wasVcspe6tedAfrbm•! ..bf '.wbrEgranted^;'f «-i ; 'S;--:-'' l; Eevi :";Mr ,'i:Stanb'ridge''. reported/tlie : .result;; of';a I '-meeßng,'> of::-. ■-:K:elpjiriie. i ..'in-' habitants, vhdd-'pn : : ;-re«>lvti6n - to/fSToir' Qf/ thb erection a Kelburney raising of ; a' : lbahVo'f-.:<£re Eey.;.Comri«.'i ithe. reposition, -Jn<jnti6ning. :that-.;thp i(istimafed cost -was; ,was-a\sum.pf;.;ilOO '.in'hand'.'"'.There,'were jiridicatipns' that ( :the:'^o.^th'of I .tho locality ' fe«:fyraNAuraßb.\thW?.loan,'<;6. ;:T)Q , r'fepaid^ : ;i!SO a'jearyforjhduse rent, the. motion of-^'e^Bftv^J:. f ßilßbit;:Si4ilK, rf thci ' plans the : npcesthe: raising :of;:.thb,;lb'ani r ';:Mri' : J. G'; . W;':-Aitken. es- ; pressed; the fhopeV that ;.the Kelhurno' con;gregatip'n,iwas;;ii6t overlooking' the .. fact -.-in) .Wellington' was'.-on .the'.Vmmprbvid-'.value, would' : be'vn'ecessary,,to; ' : h'avo, ] ;. a ' fence /erected ■ arp'uud ; : the;-prop6sed':manSe' I ..aiid as close 1 'to;:it;"as pdssiblol:;