BAPTIST CHURCH CONFERENCE

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10582, 11 October 1910, Page 2

BAPTIST CHURCH CONFERENCE

(Per Press Association.)

•■<■■■■ Dunedin, October 10: At the Baptist Conference: the Rev: G. Knowles Smith (President, of the Council of Churches) , and the Rev. Axelsen (Moderator of the Presbytersextended cordial greetings to .the. delegates. - !

A conference on Sunday School work ofceupied the afternoon. Papers on the subject were read by the Rev! Howard. Elliott and the Rev. F. Macdonald.' -The Rev. R. V S. Gray (Ghrißtehurch) was ; appointed -the - Union's'' special Representative at the Baptist, World's Conference at Philadelphia in 4-911, and? the Rev. Arthur Dewdney (Brooklyn) was delegate to the Baptist Conference of * Australasia,- ■ 'to; be held in JMelbourne next March. | Mr G. Carson (Wanganui) submitted a report concerning grants to qjiurches; It contained the following 1 recommendations, which were adopted: (1) That the principle of annual reductions in all grants be adopted in the I case of all aided churches unless otherwise specially ordered by resolutions of the Union. (2) That unless under special circumstances and by special .e----solution of xhe Union no grant shall be continued beyond five years. (3) That without speci il explanation anil resolution of the Union no grant be made to any clmrch which proposes to pay a stipend to its minister if married at a rate exceeding £'2OS per annum, or if unmarried £156 per annum.