BAPTIST UNION

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 88, 12 October 1915, Page 4

BAPTIST UNION

THE CONFERENCE AT AUCKLAND I*l TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 11th October. _At the Baptist Union Conference the Finance Committee answered questions as to how the deficits could be best avoided, in a number of findings including the following : — That creation in each case is necessary of a proper reserve or capital fund by the putting aside of special donations, surplus balances, and any legacies not ear-marked for other purposes, such reserve fund to be used for the financing of operations of both the Union and Missionary Society. That the method of weekly systematic giving, preferably by duplex envelopes, is recommended, and should fre made available in connection with all churches in the Union. That the establishment of a. central office and the appointment of a paid secretary and treasurer to devote the whole of his time to the transaction of the business of the Union and Missionary Society, and of other denominational interests, including the keeping of accounts and the organisation and development of tiie denomination, throughout the Dominion, is highly desirable. That the adoption should be asked for by all the churches of a uniform system of keeping and rendering accounts and receipts and disbursements, and of returns of statistics. The report was adopted tentatively, the resolntion to be confirmed after a joint meeting of the Executive and Missionary Society's Committee. The Union held a patriotic meeting to-night in the Tabernacle.