PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12712, 15 November 1904, Page 5

PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

( ; i{ , , ■ ■■! —i*t—»**—-—- *» PROPOS3SD RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE. ■"" ;-'• .''•'■' ':'■.■'..'-. ~'■'; ■'■'■"-'■■ •■■■■'■■'■\. ■■'.■■'■'■ '■■• '• ',:.■■■'•'='■ ■''■'■' "■ ■ ■"■■ — " BIBLE SCHOOLS : QUESTION. ;. [BY TEUEGRAFH.—PBB3B ABSOCtVTIOK.] ' ' / WtttuwTciS Monday, , Tbb -Presbyterian Assembly : resumed today. The report of fcfci* Jubilee Fund ; Comtnittoe showed that during the jrtMtaf, -th« fund tad grown from £9313 to £9802, and too* tho closing of the account « bequeet fit £245 bad been : .rmd«. '. The report ,oft the proposed residential college showed that the secondl annual instalment M the £?&0 ■ kadi been : paid &*<* by ' Mr John "Bote, and that '%, 0. F. Bulkn, of' tilkoura, bed promised ■ £600 if nine others ■gave *. like tam.' ■. la reply to this one gentleman had promised £500 from his estate, and Mi-, John Ridey; Caversham, bad protbSsea 1 lo.he.bnts, oie of the ftin.l Others. ,' She' late Miss • Manson, ' 'pi' Fetid-. ing, had also bequeathed £1000 to tho college. ' ' • < ■ • :--, A report was presented by tho commit-, fcce on Bible-rentling m school The ireport, after reviewing the proceedings in regard to the Referendum Bill, concluded as follows:— It looks as if the Churches had been fooled, by whom is not very j clear, whether toy the Premier,or by men j who, prior to .their', election, }nomised to j support a referendum on tlie Bible in schools question, or by the T.ogiskt've Council. The time for patient submission to • such treatment is past. We have fought well with the weapons we have used till now, but there may be need of employing weapons Of a less obsolete pattern.'■ The Rev Dr. Gihb in moving the adoption of ; the report, declared that there was a large •majority of electors in the coldnyJn; favour of the measure for which the Bible in schools party contended. The report was adopted, with a recommendation to the committee to do' its: utmost in co-operation with other Churches to promote the passage 'it»»J. t>n..lCiiVnAKi!Af n- Pill frt*»

through Parliament,! of a Bill providing for a special Bible in schools referendum next session. • """