DOMINION BAPTISTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21926, 9 October 1934, Page 10

DOMINION BAPTISTS

ASSEMBLY IN WELLINGTON MEETINGS OPEN TO-NIGHT The annual assembly of the BaptistUnion of New Zealand will open its sessions in Wellington to-night. Most of the churches of the Dominion will be represented. At the opening meeting the presidentelect, the Rev. J. Laird, of Mount Albert, will be installed in office and will give his report on the work of the Baptist World Alliance which recently mot in Berlin and to which he was a delegate. Reports to be presented to the assembly disclose that two new churches More formed during the past year and that the total membership in the Dominion has risen to 8725,, There are SS Sunday Schools, an increase of five, and the number of scholars has risen by 263 to 8065. There are JO additional young men's Bible Classes, the membership having risen by 89 to 1056. A similar increase in the number of young women's Bible classes has brought their total to 117, with an aggregate membership of 1316, an increase of 192. Reference is also mtrdu to the mission conducted by the Baptist Church in Bengal, with 16 European missionaries:, including a doctor and two nurses, and a large native staff. The Church has raised £6599-for this work during the past year and by a special "Carey Commemoration Fund" has wiped out alt deficits and sent the Rev. M. J. Fade and Miss Eileen C'oad as recruits to the mission field. The young men's Bible classes are covering the cost of Mr. Ende's maintenance. Two students who have completed their training at tho Baptist College, Messrs. W.'N. Flett and H. Lloyd, are to be designated for homo service. Tho new minister of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, Dr. A. Hodge, will bo present at the assembly.