METHODIST CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12212, 6 March 1903, Page 5

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

[by telegraph.—press association.] Oheistchtjech, Thursday. The Methodist Conference to-day discusser] foreign mission' business. It was resolved that all income, together with lists of contributions, be : forwarded \ to the Foreign Mission's secretary each year; that the Foreign Mission's secretary and a layman be appointed treasurers, the former to be a member of the Conference; that the Executive Committee, in conjunction with. the superintendents, arrange a plan of deputations to cover the whole colony; that the circuit superintendents be requested to call the attention of congregations -to mission literature. The Rev. J. M. Buttle and Mr. C. Hicks were re-elected secretaries. '_ The Conference directed annual sermons jin all churches on the subject of foreign missions. The Rev. A. Collier was designated to mission deputation work in New Zealand during the ensuing months." In the afternoon the Conference, in committee, considered matters in connection with the Home Mission fund, and also received a deputation from the Ministers' Association, representing the Presbyterian, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Churches, which expressed fraternal greetings.: :• - ■"■". ' ' The evening was devoted to conversation on the work of God. .A motior expressive of gratitude to God for the past and of hope for the future was carried.