BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXII, Issue 13575, 22 October 1904, Page 7

BAPTIST CONFERENCE.

1 i [Pee Press Association.] DUNEDIN, October 2L At tie Baptist conference a motion w* passed expressive of big'll appreciation of the services of the late Mr’-Frederick Battley, of Auckland). The annual report .stated’ that for home mission work the income bad quadrupled itself. The Children’s Home, at Auckland, has forty-five orphans at present. Returns from 59 churches and 25 preaching stations shoiv a total membership of 3985, a gain of 998 for the year. _ In the evening the president gave his address. His subject being “ la, Christ* ianity a Spent Force!” , f •