BAPTIST ASSEMBLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 13

BAPTIST ASSEMBLY

SALARIES OF MINISTERS

I (Special to the "Evening Post.") j DUNEDIN. October 23.. ! At the last day of the Baptist As- ! sembly today it was decided to recommend that the minimum salaries of ministers and home missionaries be raised to £275 for married. ministers, ; £255 for married home missionaries, ! £200 for single ministers, and £180 [ for single home missionaries. It was decided to send greetings to Baptist Chaplains serving ■with the Forces. On the subject of conscientious objectors to military service, it was" decided to reaffirm the ■■following, resolution passed in 1935: —"That-the Baptist Union reaffirms the historic faith in the principle of liberty of conscience for every man, and applies this equally to conscientious objectors to military service as to all others." SALE OF LIQUOR. The assembly approved and endorsed the petition launched by the New Zealand Alliance urging the Government to bring regulations for the period of the war and six months thereafter reducing the facilities and the hours of sale of liquor, with particular'emphasis upon the urgent need of absolute closing of hotels between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m., and the rigid and proper enforce.ment of the licensing laws. It was recommended that the Baptist Union be affiliated with the National Council of Churches. The final gathering was devoted to a service in the interests of the college and church extension. Addresses were given by Mr. Ernest Nees on "Planned Progress and by Dr. J. J. North on "On; to Orthodoxy. 3' The assembly concluded with a Communion service, conducted by the president, the Rev. R. L. Fursdon,