PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1288, 17 November 1911, Page 5

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

(By TelccraDh.-Press Association.! ™ r> i j. P uncdin > November 1C Iho Presbyterian Assembly decided today to discontinue committees on the state of religion, public questions, and evangelism, and that one committee, known us the committee on Church life and work bo substituted. '

The Rtrntfortl case was remitted to the Taranaki Presbytery to consider the value and relevance of the alleged new evidence w nil power to cite witnesses and iuaum> whether in the Assembly's decMM , "™ material injustice was done to Mr Taller ISJO3 " aS U<>t Uoard by th ° Assp mWy in

A petition of Wairarapa members of the Wellington Presbytery, that a new j>re& bytery be formed to be called the WaTrt rapa Presbytery, was presented br the fmted mPS ° n (3tatcrt ° u > & ™

A full discussion on tho sanctionim? of a new hymn book for use in the church resulted in the adoption of a motion not to declare in the meantime eith-r the new /I H UrC f h P /-T°" or " r;hnrch Hvmnarv" (both of which are now sanctioned br the •Chureh al h7mU bMk °'"

Iho Rev. A. Cameron presented the report of luiox College Council, emphasis being placed in his and other subsequent speeches on the need for the oon-'e'a-tions to wipe out the arrears of sihirv due to the master. It was afterwards agreed to instruct the Dunedin Presbvtery to release the Rev. A. Cameron for four or six months to urge the claims of the endowment fund and of college generally throughout tho congregations in the .Dominion.