THE HABIT OF HEALTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10636, 30 October 1896, Page 2

THE HABIT OF HEALTH.

If we think of soap as a means of cleanliness only even then Pains' Soap is s matter ol course. It is the onljrßQap thafria all aoap and nothing bnfc soap*-no free fot nor Srae slkaJr'n It. Ba6 wbat aosßctennJiiwss le^dto'p B leads to % •whoSefiomo bo*ly aud miiuit to close ehoisshts.f totita tsbili of h<Bs!atft<>nsßal^«#

cargill) £i ; Limestone Plains, ; Otepopo, ] apj Kakanui, aud Maheno, £20; l'apikaio, jEB 2»3d. act The following congregations report a decrease:- to Blueskin and Merton, £?18.i; St. Andrew's, £11 i tiol 0s 6d; West Taieri, £10 0s 8d; Balclutha, 4a 6d; ; Kaitanßata, £5 10s; Tokomairiro, £i 2s 9d; Wai- jV , hola 4b 61; Warepa and Kaihiku, 18s Id; Knap- "2; dale ,£9 ss; MaUura.ls; Tois Tois, £l;Wynd. wit ham, £25; Wallacetown.iS. Only 14 congrega- bat tions contribute more than the minimum and w h give aid. Moat of these we only a few pound*, j,,,. Thirty-four congrusations contribute only the t , tare minima of J2-200 and iJI7S. The dividend "" for the year is jEt9l> (Ss 861. as against "l! £199 7s last year—n decrease of 4d. Tho com- wa mittee rccommecd the synod to raiss the church bee extension charge of Dipton into a. fully sane- mi tioned charge* on the synid dividend platform v and | 3U i that the Bluff charge be for two yeara reckoned ! jj 3 j ns" a country congregation. Your committee j « would urge the synod to lay tho duty of civmg j . very special attention to the condition cf this j "•» fund upon the ministers, the deacons' courts and cot committees of management, and the people of wb the church. The committee ask the synod for Co power to obtain returns of tho contributions of an , the ministers and their households to the susten- e j tation fund. col The report was received, and it was resolved o{ that Dipton be erected into a fully sanctioned charge on an equM dividend platform; that a^ the Bluff be for two ye»rs reckoned as a countiy tharge; that the synod lay the duty of no giving very special attention to the condition of boi the eustentiition'fund opon ministers, deacons coiuU, committees of ln'anagement, and the j^, people of the church; a»<3 that the committee /„ daring the year do moeh more to bring the eai claims of the fund before the congregations stl than has been done during tbe past year. qB The Eev. R. R. M. Spthbelaud moved-— J^ "That the committee- be empowered to obtain g ; returns of the contributions of the ministers n and their households to the sustentation fund." yy A good dear of discussion took place wish. ra reg'srd to this motion, snd during the discussion jje two or threo members of the synod characterised w - it as inquisitorial. ; i 811 Mr P. B. Frasee said he thought the ,£ motion was an insult to the whole of the ministers of "the church. If any ministers had done wrong this was not the way to put it at light. He moved—"Thai the last clause of the report be deleted, and that no part of the n( discussion be published." or ■ The Rev. I. Jolly seconded tha amendment, ,1 . and said the motion ■ seemed to treat the whole ; B of the ministers as "suspects." ' tl • '•■ The Eev.' R. R. M, Sutherland said he &! hoped' that it would nob be supposed that he cs was the enemy of ministers or an enemy of tha g, suatentation fund. He believed he was aa w honest in his desire to be the frisnd of ministers 3£ and of the fund as any member of tha synod jj when he snggestsd that the committee should ftT try and ■. get some power from the synod to g obtain the returns asked for, _ i n •Mr'Feasee's amendment on being put was f c carried by H votes to 37. tl The Rev. Mr Sutheklakd said ho hoped the _, synod would relieve him of the convenership of t the committee. He was certainly not the right jj man in the righb placß. He might have beau at nl one time, but now ho was not. f c , DEPUTIES' I-HO3I THE SOKTIIEB><' dttlBCH. (] Tho deputies from the northern chnrch—the j t Key. W. Watt (of Tanna), the Ray. J. Paterson tl (of Wellington), and Mr W. Gavin (of Christ- G chnrch) were introduced to the synod by the ;, Rev. A. Camekos, and welcomed by ths g MODEEATOE. tt The Rtv. W; Watt, who, on rising to speak; n was cordially received, c.aid that he had long j felt that it was a greit pity that there should r( be two churches ia New Zealand, which after j, all were really one. So far as he could see, the c , points in which they differed were bo small f that if an earnest attempt were made to get j over those diffionltieß it would be very »pe«duy 0 Buccessful.—(Hear, hear.) He procaoded to j, refer to the success achieved by tho Otago a church's missionaries in the New Hebrides, 8 and B&id that the three missionaries there had v been remarkably succossfol in their work. c Mr Gavin also briefly addressed the synod, ~ and it was decided to'heir ths Rev. J. Pater- c son in the evening. , £ THE SDSTENTAMON FDND. t It was- reeolved that the synod meet on , Friday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for the purpose 0 of considering returns to remit on the suatsnta- c tion fund. ; ..'".■, 1