ROSLYN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17066, 26 July 1917, Page 6

ROSLYN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of. the .Roslyn Pres- « bytenan <jnurch pansn.onidrs was tield last evening, tnere being a good attendance. The xtoy. w. Giay JDixou presided. " * n The meeting navmg oeen opened with devotional exercises, tn© Rev. A. M, Dairy moved the adoption of the annual report. It was, he said, an optimistic report, and everyone snould be gratined at the progress made during the year. If possible, they should endeavour .to increase the attendance at public worship in the church. If they, all set to work and heartily endeavoured to achieve this result he was sure they would be successful,' Mr Biaokwood seconded the motion. Mr .ttamel said the ladies of the congregat.on hadwonied like Trojans in connection with our war work. He criticised the construction of their church, and suggested that tlif* gallery be puued out altogether? He thougnt. too, the seats should be free. Mr R. S. Black, in speaking to the motion, said that'the seat rent worked out at lid per Sunday. He paid a tribute to the work* done by the ladies, and said that, had it not been for iheir services, the position of the church would not have been as good as it was.

Mr Ritchie and Mr Lindley mad.e an appeal for choir members.

Mr Smaill suggested that a notice be posted in the vestibule of the church to the all seats in the church were frea at each Sunday evening service. The Chairman said it was generally understood now that the seats were free at the evening service. Continuing, he said that the gross revenue tor last year was £1266, and when he came to hand in the statistics next month he felt sure that the total would be within a few pounds of £1500. The report was adopted. Mr Fraser moved tie adoption of the balance sheet.

Mr Black, in ; seconding the motion, said that for the three years prior to the war their income from three sources was £1867, and their expenditure £2078. Since the war their income was £1828, and their expenditure £1797.' Th-.s was surely a testimony to the Rev. Mr Dixon's ministry at the church, and it was without 'parallel in the history of the church.—(Applause.) The balance sheet was adopted. It was resolved (the members standing) to erect a marble tablet in the church in memory of the late Rev. James Chisholm, the first minister of the church. The congregation, in addition, will combine with the Milton Presbyterian Church in placing a headstone over the gravo of their late minister.

Dm rag the evening the chairman presented Mrs Kerr, Miss Agnes Vernon, and Mr Crawford with diplomas from the General Assembly in commemoration of their 25 years' service in the Sabbath school as teachers.

At the conclusion of the business some time was spent in social intercourse, and a very fine musical programme was rendered by the choir and merribers of the congregation. The Rev. W. Trotter delivered a brief but interesting address on the subject of "Christian Liberality."