PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE.
[by telegraph.] Christchurch, Tuesday. The Primitive Methodist Conference resumed their sittings to-day. The Sunday-schools report showed that connected with the Church were G8 schools, G54 teachers, and 4770 scholars. There were 3273 juvenile abstainers. The receipts for the year had amounted to .£913, and the expenditure to J8768. The Home Missions report showed an income of ,£2Bl, in addition to .£IOO raised for the Wanganui mission. A motion was carried making it imperative to use unfermented wine only at the Lord's Supper. It was decided also by 26 votes to 11 that total abstinence from intoxicating liquor should be a condition of Church membership.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11125, 18 January 1899, Page 3
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107PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11125, 18 January 1899, Page 3
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