PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10667, 17 January 1911, Page 1

PRIMITIVE METHODIST CONFERENCE.

(Pmi Pkess Association * Wellington, J.inuary 16. AL the Primitive Methodist Conference it was leported by tho Publishing Committee that the year's income was £374 4s 8d and the expenditure"" £27 4s 4d, leaving a balance or £lO3 0s 4d. The assets were put down at £l2B Os 4d, and the profit at £tf£r73i&d ' .On the' contingent fund o;£ £76_2s 7d was reported, of; £66 Is 3d An income of £372 10s 6d was leported in connection with the children's equalisation fund, and an expenditure of an equal amount Thirtysc\ en children wero on the fund It was reported that the Anti-Cigarette "League had a membership of 138, but that theijeyWaSfieason -to e\pect*muflh[ greitei jprogress during ~the 'coming' >eai's working. The Oiphanago Committee reported a much increased interest m.-the affaus, contributions having been received fiom seventeen additional schools. The income totalled £22 6s, and a credit -balance of £8 19s remained in hand at the end of the"year The income of the book room foi 12 months was stated to be £llß 14s There was a balance in hand of £l6 13s, and the assets were put at ;&820 as against a liability of £250 for the Afupan mission The sum of £l9 lis, was'reported as having been raised as v compaied with £l3 ]3s in the previous | J eai. Tho Sunday School Committee recorded its appreciation of the successful efioiti made in some schools for tho bettci equipment and organisation of the school forces. Of 366 scholars nominated for the scholars' Scriptural examination 243 returned their answer papers.. The average per scholar,for Nevy Zealand had,risen from 61.5 per cent, last year to 68.5 this year. In response to a deputation from the New Zealand Alliance the Conference promised its support. '..- A; deputation from , the WellingtonMinisters' -Association waited on > the Primitive Methodist Conference to-day. The Rev.- J- K. Elliott said he was not; one -of. those who held that division- w f as a wrong thing, and that there would be no more dcnominationalism in i'the -future.- : The churches of the future would be immeasurably superior existing ones. If he could prophesy he would say that this church would have :the efficiency of the Congregationalists, the superintendence and thp authority of the Episcopalians and' the co-operation of the Presbyterians, together with the aggressive zeal of the Methodist Church; when they had_ got these things he declared the- church of the future would-be so like heaven that they would .not want to Icaxc it. Thc.i .Conference expressed its appreciation of '.the visit of the deputation and; the good fellowship of other .'churches. They preached one gospel and aimed at one' result—the salvation of; men.