OTAGO PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.

Evening Star, Issue 12162, 5 April 1904, Page 8

OTAGO PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD.

The inaugural meeting of the Otago Presbyterian Synod was held last evening at the First Church. The retiring moderator (the Rev. A. Cameron) occupied the pulpit, and, after the opening devotional exercises, preached an impressive sermon, taking as bis text St. John's Gospel xii., 32: "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men. unto me." The dirpen«iiiou of the Lord's Supper followed. The Synod was then constituted as follows: —Ministers. Dunedin.—Revs. William Will (S.M.), M Watt, D.D., A Greig, M.A., Alex, m! Finlayson, R. R M. Sutherland, R. Waddell, D.D., J. Christie (S.M.), I) Borrie, A. Cameron, 8.A., J. M. M'Kerrow, 8.A., J. Duolop, D.D, Alex Don, W. Campbell (S.M.), I. K. M'lntrre, W. Hewitson, 8.A., E. C. Tennent, W. Scorgie, R. Fair, maid, W. M. Nicolson, D.Se., R. Mackie, J. J. Caixney, James Chishohn, D. M'Coll L. Thompson, M.A., A. W. Kinmonx, M.A., J. Kilpatrick, J. S. Pondes. Clutha.—Revs. S. W. Carrie. M.A.. A. M. Dalrymple, M.A., J A. Will, J. S. Reid, P. B. Fraser, M.A., George Millar, J. F. Macalister, M.A., W. H. Howes, 8.A., R. S. Allan, R, H. Blair, P. Ramsay, George Budd, John Chisholm, F. G. Orr, M.A. Southland.—Revs. Jaa Baird (S.M.), Geo. Lindsay, A. Macdopald. M.A., Ewan Bissett, W."W. Brown: Robert M'Culiy, 8.A., James Gumming, M.A., George Y. Roby, James Lymbum. C. A. Gray, M.A., J. T. Burrows, D. Iv. Fisher, James M. Simpson, 8.A., James Wilson. R. H. Catherwood, Alfred Laishly, Robert Ferguson, F. W. Dunlop, M.A-, Ph.D. Oamaru.—Revs. John Steven, P. S. Hav, M.A., William Nichol, Wilbam Wright, James Clarke, James Standring, R. J. Porter, Thomas Neave, J. R. Shore, M.A., D. M'lvor, J. G. M'Leod. Dunstan.—Revs. R. Telford, J. M'Cosh Smith, M.A-, 8.D., J. C. Gellie, B-A.,Jas. Mackie, Thomas Tait, Mataura.—Reva J. M. Davidson, M.A. (S.M.), Adam Begg, M.A., W. A. Kvd. M.A., A. D Kirkiand, A Gray, W. *F. Findlav, J. Collw, M.A., Thos. Paulin.Geo. M'Donald, Henry T. Blair, W. F. Craigie. —Elder3.— Dunedin.—Messrs George Holmes, John Duncan, Colin Taylor, J. T. Johnson, W. Prvor, T. Begg, F Marshall, W. Henderson, John Reid, D. A. M'Nicoll, R. Chisholm, A. Davidson, R. Bagrie, A. Chishohn, Thomas Ross, George Reid, A. Kilgour, A. C. Begg, A. Fleming, W. Kirkiand, John Blair, W. Coatsworth, W. H. Adams, D. Thomson. Clutha.—Messrs Charles Dallas, James Lamond, John M'Hattie, Robert Pringle, John Edwards, Thomas Adam, John Johnston, Jas. Taylor, Simon Lewis, Hugh Russell, Robert Tapp, Thomas Tait, John M'Caw. Southland.—Messrs John Cowie, Thomas Carswell. John M'Febridge, William Fraser, John M'PhaiL Oamaru.—Messrs Geo. Caldwell, William Stewart, George Sutherland, James B. Taylor, P»obeTt Jackson, James Robertson. Dunstan.—Mr James Adam, Dr Robert Church, Mr R. Glendining, Mr A. H. Grinling. Mataura.—Messrs James M'Coll, Hugh Bl&ikie, Alex. Murdoch, Andrew Aitken, W. Ayson, John Eadie, John Kirk, William Wetherburn, W. Johnston, Joseph Pulter. • —The Incoming Moderator.— On the motion of the retirimj Moderator.

the Rev. J. A. Will, of Lawrence, was unanimously elected Moderator for tie ensuing twelve months, and took the chair accordingly.

After the usual formal business had bean transacted, the Synod adjourned until this morning.