PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS

Evening Star, Issue 16777, 4 July 1918, Page 7

PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS

Tho monthly meeting of th© Fosslgn I Missions Committee of tho >vesbyterian : Chvrch o{ Now Zealand was held on Tuesday afternoon Fit'teen members jjyene present, also Mrs Bla-.'kie, Mrs Bowie, and Dr Paterson, by invitation. Professor Hewitson presided. GENERAL. The question of Dr Patcrson'e movements was discussed, and several applications for bis services were tabled. It was decided to hold the matter over, and in the meantime to empower the secretary, in conference with Dr Paterson, to make arrangements for his addressing various women's Presbvterian associations at then ■ annual meetings iii Otago. Southland, and Canterbury. , | Mrs Inglis, of Masterton, forwarded a , draft order of service and rrJ e sion catc- ■ dhium which she is preparing for the use ! of " Busy Bee Mission Hives,"' and asked for corrections and suggestions. —It was agreed to express the committee's thanks i to Mrs Inglis. and to instruct the secretary j to accoda to the request made. I Miss Jean Young, secretary of tho Pal- | merston North Young Women's Bible Class I District Committee, wrote at some length rspsrding a proposal for the district classes to support their "own missionary" in the foreign held.—The committee expressed pleasure at the proposal for a forward moveassnt, but advised consultation with ; the executive of the Bible Classes Unions before taking any steps. The Secretary submitted the "Literature" report, the main points of which are: (1) A number of letters have been I received asking for propaganda literature I and intormation ; (2) a large number of I ordVrs have been received from Sunday schools in all parts of the Dominion for [ the special Sunday school literature on 'Japan, imported by the committee; (3) of ; tho 8,500 copies of tho committee's annual report for lyi7 only about 300 arc unsold. 1 The "' Mission ftludy " report stated that J only about 40 copies remained unsold of I the 1,600 imported for this year's study {on Japan, ' Sunrise in tho Sunrise Kingdom' : also that the Row YV. Watt, of Melbourne, and the Row T. Macmdlar., i of Tanna, were assisting with material for j next year's study on tho l\c\v Hebrides. I Tho committeo authorised a giant of £5 | for tile purchase of books for tho library ! and expressed pleasure that their sets of lantern slides had been in use recently in , Auckland, iStratford, and .Uethven. i The convener reported that he had re- ' ceiv-ed an anonymous donation of £2OO towards a missionary's salary—a similar donation having conic, unsolicited, from j tho same donor for a number or years in i succession. j Mrs Hewitson handed in £IOO for the 'mission funds from the P.W.M. Union j South Island OrL-ntal Depot, and stated j that besides this the sum of £'lo had Oven (given to the funds of tho Wo/ucn's TramI mg Institute towards extinction of deoi. CHINA.

I The Rev. G. 11. M'A'ouv, Canton, forI warded an account of his visit to banking, as the delegate oi tlu.' Canton Pres.A'kry to the China Piesbyteriun Cuuncil, he,d in Miuking from August 13 to 17. The council met for the special purpose of con stitutiug a regular tkneral Assembly _ for the whole- of China., out as accredit-jd delegates were pre.-cnt from the Congregational Churches (the London Missionary Sock-tv and the American Board Mission), with \\hom union was desired, it was de- : eided in the meantime to constitute only ! a Provisional Geneial Assemoly, whicu would mature plans for tho wider union. :Mr M'Neur wrote: "The " ' ing will b* looked back upon as an historic occasion, and it was a great privilege to have had a part in its proceedings." _ i _ Dr John Kirk forwarded copies ot ma lettor to Sir John Joid-in (British Resi- ; dent Minister at Peking), with tho MimsI ter's reply : " With reference to your letter I of March 20, stating that further depletion lof your staff would entail tho _ closing of I tho'work of your mission hospital for an ! indefinite period, T am of opinion that ' under the circumstances it ia not proposed I) call for vour services. I am grateful to voui for vour loval offer of service. | TV riecretarv of the Ashbur.ton branch 'of the P.W.M'U. forwarded £lO for the ; support of a Bible -woman m the Canton 'f'iilaga Mission, and the secretary (l - the branch of the Laymen's Mission 'Movement forwarded £l2 ss, balance of funds in hand on the date of merging i into the Presbyterian Men's League .the inniount having been voted to the C.V.M. i Hospital. | ' NEW HEBRIDES. ' \ letter was received from the Rev. W. ■\"" Milns. Svdiiey (June 19), stating that owing to' tho stranding of the Makarnbo at Lord Howe Island, they had been delayed on their return voyage-, that there | was every hope of the vessel being rej floated, and that probably another vessel would make a trip instead. The Rev. 0. Michdsen (»gunn, April ; 301 advised that the Rev. P. Milne was i srifering from hernia. Writing from his I own station, Tongoa. on May 21, Mr iMichclsen said: ,r When I landed from j Norma I was told that 30 people Bad died ! since 1 went away, and still they were sick at nearly every village. Some seven or eight have' died 'since I came back. A men "at Selembanga, was tho first in <mr house to tako ill, and soon after his wife land child sickened. The man died first, jthen the child. When they returned fiom 'burving the chile they ftund tho mother dead." Mr Miehelsen thought at one time that, the disease was meningitis, but now t thinks it is some malignant fever. Ho pnd i Mrs Miehelsen were very busy going to I the \arious village? distributing m?dicine I and nourishing food I " INDIA. | The Rev. W. J. Comrie, general treasurer, Wellington, reported bavin;; received £SO from an anonymous donor for . the purpose of erecting a teacher's house at Talakattr, a sub-station of the mission in tho Pan jab.—lt was resolved to refer > the matter to tho India Council for their i approval. ! The Secretary of the Y.W.IS. Class. Picton, forwarded £l2 for the support of a Bible woman for -one year, and St. Luke's (Remuera) Y.W.B. Class advised that they were contributing £l2 annually toward th education of the wives of the m-nried men in tho training classes, regarding whom Miss Henderson wrote: "Since seeing village conditions I have come to the conj elusion that teaching a lad and leaving his ! wife untaught is tho way to render on; I work of no effect." | A letter from an Indian pastor of a I large congregation, covering 'photographs ■and price list of lace work made by hjs ! people, was referred to the P.W.M.U. | Oriental depot. I By request of the convener, the Revs. E, Adams and J. C. Jamieson engaged in prayer for the missionaries on the fields. on national sendee, and on furlough, also for the various peoples among whom they ■worked.