CONGREGATIONALISM

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1924, Page 13

CONGREGATIONALISM

A MINISTER WELCOMED.

A meeting of Congregationalists took place last, evening at the Cambridge Terrace Schoolroom, under the auspices of the Wellington Congregational District Committee, in order to welcome the Rev. D. Gardner Miller, who lias recently taken up the pastoral oversight of the Miller Memorial Church, Napier. A welcome was also extended to Mrs Miller. • The Rev. F, De Lisle occupied the chair, and was supported with speeches of greeting and welcome by Mr. F. Meadou-croft (chairman of the Congregational Union of New Zealand) the Rev. W. M. Holland, 8.A., B.D and Mr. W. J. Lankshear. The Rev.' Mr. Miller was warmly welcomed by those present, when lie rose to reply. He was glad, lie said, that he had decided to come to Napier and to New Zealand, and was sure that Congregationalism had a living message for the people. JTis-com-ing had been due to meeting with the Rev. Lionel Fletcher (now of Beresford street, Auckland), who had put the question to him one day at tea—and within twenty-four hours the contract was complete. The Church should not demand that their pastor should be for ever visiting, unless it was the sick; but the ministers should seek in- tl'ieir pulpit work to have their flag always (lying at the masthead, lie believed in a great future for the- Congregational Church. During the evening Mrs A. M. Le\vi s p;n,g Hie solo, "The Lord is Mindful of His Own." and (ho Cambridge 'Terrace Clioir .r,,v c the aulliem, ''.Blow, "Winds of God "'* V[ Us: Urn- J^.JUndieU'.tl, fl. podll! teH.JHJIIr wm E|jeiil, und refi-oshmeuts were JK jjensecL.- - ■ ■