BAPTIST UNION CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10580, 8 October 1910, Page 6

BAPTIST UNION CONFERENCE.

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Tlie Baptist Union Conference was continued to-day.

The Treasurer's report showed that the debit balance was £l3O 8s Id. In" the course'.of the: financial debateit 'was stated that for the last three years the debit balances were £l5O, £155 and £l3O respectively. The personal donations averaged £d.per "Member per week. Of course those who gave contributed a great deal more than that. Many members gave little or nothing.."'At present the position was really due. to : the urgent, demand for an extension of home work. Monthly subscriptions were advocated, and it was stated that an extra Id per week would mean an additional £IOOO per year. It was decided to recommend for consideration of the churches a scheme of duplex envelope collections. : ' The Rev. J- J- North submitted the Students' Committee report. The Committee recommended Kowe substituted for'TCeeiily as -the text book, for evidences in the first year's course, and that ministers be urged to direct the attention of young men of promise and talent to the claims of the ministry, and that when practicable preparatory classes for such be initiated in connection with the church. The report was adopted. ■ ■ ' 1 Mr A. F: Carey (Cliristeliurch) presided in the evening, "when the subject was "The Baptists and their Contribution to the World's Progress." The Rev. A. Dewdney (Brooklyn) dealt with Baptists in the past. . The Rev. J. J. North (Wellington), I speaking of Baptists in the present, said brotherhood was what men sought aftcj, and it was stifled In Geimanphobia, Dreadnoughts, black piobleins, and yellow problems. The Rc\ A. S Wilson (Wanganui) gave an address on Baptists in tho future The essence of then belief lay m then giand baptismal ordinance. They stood not for the emblem of thfe thing,'but foi tho thing itself The culture of the picsent day was tho most oxtiaordinary ever seen. It was a method of scientific lealism looking at things as they were, and describing things as they weie"'ln 'the 'union of churches there must be absolute ficodom of teaching and pleaching -n things non-essential to unity and in things noii-cssential to hbertj, and l i all things charity."