PORT CHALMERS MINISTERS' ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 16781, 9 July 1918, Page 1

PORT CHALMERS MINISTERS' ASSOCIATION

The Port Chalmers Ministers' Associa- : linn resinned yesterday tho meeting which : hnd been adjourned from Thursday last, i I 'ho association congratulated tho president | (tho Kev. W. M. Crant) upon his election j to the office of president of the Dunedin and Suburban School Omimittees' Association. In replying, Mr Craut said that I this body of 70 educational experts was j fhe most ivmarkable and efficient educa- i tional body he had ever known. Their ability and zeal indicated the very high place which education hold in the" minds of the people of this community. - Tho association further resolved to place ! upon record their sense of the public scr- ! - vices rendered to the cause, of religion in j tho public schools of Xew Zealand bv the . Rev. W. M. Grant and the Rev. A. Whyte, both of whom for about 20 years had conducted Bible.' classes in tho public .schools ' of tho Dominion. ' Tile association reviewed the work of the ' various Bible classes of the district. These , are three in number. At Sawyers ' Day I Captain HJford conducts a, Bible cfns3 twice j a week at 8.30, being half uu hour before ' tho ordinary school Lour. At Port Oha!- j '.

! mors the ministers conduct a daily Bible I class every morning at 8.45, being half an hour beioie ordinary school hours.. The Rev. \V. -VI. Grant reported that during the I'ivo months from the opening of the session till now ho had taught in the junior division of the daily class the latter part of the story of the Gospels and the Hook of | Acts. The Rev. A. Whyte reported that ! he had taught, the senior division for thai, ! period the Four Gospels, the Hook of Acts | to chapter vii., the Epistles of James, 1 j Peter, and 1 John, and the Book of Psalms. In addition to the daily class the ministers have a. special class on Wednesday, under the Nelson system, from 9.15 to 9.45, almost all the scholars of the school beinj; present, and tho members of the staff giving also voluntary attendance. Tho Rev. Mr Grant reported that on Wednesdays ho had taught the junior division the Books of Samuel, Kings, and Daniel, illustrating tho lessons with the pictures of the Berean series. The Rev. A. Whyte reports 1 that he had taught the senior division the Old Testament story from Genesis to 1 Kings, oi' from Adam to Elijah, and had also given a series of lessons on the Gospel story, using also the Berean pictures. The association decided that for the next three months the arrangements bo as follows : —At Sawyers Hay Captain Elford to continue his present programme-; at Port Chalmers the daily class" to he conducted by two ministers,' the Rev. W. M. Grant taking the senior division and t.he Rev. H. S. Bishop taking the junior division, the Wednesday special classes to he stalled thus : .Senior division. Grant. SMndar.ls ill. and IV. the Rev. Standards V. to VII. tho Rev. W. M. S. H. I>. I'eryman. Standards 1. and 11. Mrs Captain Hlt'ord. and tho infant, division the Lev. T-I. S. BLhop. The Rev. W'. M. Gram, called the at'pntioii of the association to the fact that since the beginning of the Wednesday .-jiecial class, over two years ago, the result of Port Chalmers S.-hool in tho public exaininalions "had been bwher than he had ever observed during the history of the association. The following arrangements were made for a combined service on Sunday, 4th August next, being the. armiveisary of the declaration of war. Service to be held in tho I'lesbvterian Chunh at 5 p.m.. the Rev. W. M. Grant, to preside, the. Rev. S. 11. Ib Pervuian to preach, and the Rev. A. Whyte to'iead the lessons. It was am'-ed to invite the. Mayor and councillors to lie | present.