PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY

Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 2

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY

COMMENCES HERE NEXT WEEK ABOUT 250 DELEGATES EXPECTED About 250 ministers and representative elders from all parts of New Zealand are expected to attend the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which will be convened in First Church, Dunedin, on Wednesday next, at 7.30 p.m. The proceedings will probably last for about eight days. The retiring Moderator is the Rev. W. H. Howes, formerly of Otautau, Southland, and the incoming Moderator is the Rev. T. E. Riddle, a pioneer missionary in the Punjab, India. Important meetings in connection with the Assembly will be the youth demonstration in Burns Hall on Thurso day, the garden party at the residence of Lady Sidey on Saturday, and the missions demonstration in Knox Church on Monday, November 7. An interesting visitor from overseas to the Assembly will be the Very Rev. Dr Macfarlane, ox-Moderator of the Church of Scotland. Dr Macfarlane is an accomplished Gaelic scholar and preacher. In addition to the General Assembly, the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union conference and Girl’s Auxiliary conference will bo held. The arrangements for the Assembly are in the hands of a committee, the convener of which is the Rev. H. A. Mitchell, of Roslyn.