PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17317, 17 May 1918, Page 8

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

» FOREIGN MISSIONS COMJMI'n^EH. l ordinary montlily meeting of the 0 Foreign Missions Committee of tho Pres- ', I'ytorimi Cinireli of Zealajid was held in tho boaiil rixim of Security Buildings, r street, on 'luesday uftLTiioon. " iuglitocn members of cominittco were present, also by invitation Mrs J. M. Blackio '* M-i's J. T. Bowie, Mrs W. V. Milne, and '■ the I»ev. W. V. Milne. Professor Ilewit- ® sou presided. f . GENERA!.. ■" rr^ mlto sympathy was rec»rded with • Miss iW'ans, now a missionary ot Madras and Miss K. F. Kvans, Tirnaru, ou th© _ recent death of tlieir mother. y -D-f 10 I 1K I ' (Jiral reports of Dts Cliuroli and i- r !"? a referee' reports relating ' , to the application of Miss Nellio llavn wero a rccciv ™i and tho applicant was accepted as t a c-'jndidato in training for foreign mission work. Miss liavn is at present taking tlie < course at tho Women's Training Institute Duncdin. • ' j Miss J. Gillies, Eoslyn, forwarded £10, f ho Kos 'yn branch of the i. , for the annual upkeep of either a Bible-woman or teacher in the foreign i i, Jew.— It was resolved to apply tlie donation : tow«i,rd the upkeep of a Bible-woman in the Canton villagGs. ' Hill. Tapamii, wroto that tho Bible classes of Dunrobin, Crookston, Hc-rict, Ivctso, Tapanui, and Waikoikoi had arranged to hold a combined conference ?vi on tho 21st inst - ar| d : ho asked that the secretary or some other speaker might give a missionary address. The secretary reported that the Rev. F G Bowio had agreed to attend.—lt was re'i- solved to thank Mr Bowie for his services ;, in tills connection, and also in voluntary r - deputation work in and around Dunedin, , and to convey to tho Bible classes confer- : ence hearty greetings from the committee. : „ i° rcportcdi that a case of 1 ■, goods from London to assist Sunday schools ! , in the mission etudy of Japan had com© to - r, aiK , ther f was a good demand for the literature; that the Missionary Educa- " ft? 1 , Moven^ent . New York, had acknowMged: receipt of 586 dollars for mission , books forwarded; that £8 18s 4d had been ' CIV tt - fron } tho N e . w S °uth Wales Fellow- !* Xr ?/vF? lon mission literature, and £69 tl ? e New Zealand Bible, Book, and .Tract Society on account of sales; that the supply obtained of 1600 copies of "Sun- ; rise in The Sunriso Kingdom" was pracsold _ out- andt that the Teachers' mtcs on the S.S. Mission lesson. "Tho K*ligions of Japan," had been published, thl l" S P , ostc<! 600 Sunday : schoois throughout the dominion. nn 0 f nVenc r/ 0p T 0 f ted rcw ? i P t of a cheorue for £100 from Mr John Ross, to be applied as was considered most desirable.—lt was Ih? J t l ,ank , Mr , Ross ' to apply - > n. towards the expense of issuing wlT S, ™- s^ udy tcxt book °n the New -Hebrides Mission, now being prepared. ohina. The Rev. W. Mawson forwarded minutea •i S ?°?f of Canton Mission Council, held on March 9, and Mr A. G. Wilson, treasurer, forwarded a statement of shortage in salaries, owing to unfavourablo cx- . change.—lt was resolved to defer considcrar. tion ot tlie permanent appointment of Miss : £■, D ,' Hancodi to the Union Normal ' - ln £ a " to , n ' until Miss Hancock's i, arrival in Dunedin on furlough, due in ; August; to approve generally of the scheme " 1+ t? gl , boar ding school for 60 boarders at Kong but to leave further con- 1 ,- sideration over until Miss Hancock arrivesi, t the application for about £300 " i?, r u erec^ on of buildings at San Man , , en . t!l , e general treasurer's statei" • j unds com «s to hand; and to t > authorise the remittance of £483 for short•Se m salaries up to March 31. . Mr Mawson's letter described the builrlings at San Man Fau as situated near tho _ chief railway station of tho Fa district, i, S? therefore a centre -of administration, i, I;h e. buildings now being erected are:—A reading room, guest room for women, dis- [. ponsary, sleeping rooms where Christians , niay pass the night, and one ti which tho missionary may use when work- !' * rom this centre, and rooms for tho ■ ! mCSG f p V ea£hcr in. charge. In addition, ■ when funas are available, a chapel is to £120° WiU ° OSt from £S0 to The council reported, regarding the Con- • ?i U T. lr . c ' °f the missionaries for service: ,1 . '.almost two months since the first intimation m regard to the military call. " 3,tn V<>re •^'7 en r t f? understand tliat a call ' w l r C,d * , fol ow tlle enrolment, bub ;, week afte- week has passed, and nothing ■. has happened." As the British Consul had > informed Dr Paterson that he would not bo required for some time, and that ho - a ty , to e; 0 to Now Zealand, pas- '. would be taken for him in April • » atter making all an-angements, Mr Miller was told there would be no vacancies for ' or three months in connection with 1 ii IDCS ? lab P tlr battalions; .owing to 1 - n c T xt f cme T l>: awkward, situation created for , "l- John . with a large hospital, a house surgeon and staff of nurses, Ui Kirk and Mr Mawson interviewed the l Consul-general, after which Dr Kirk placed ' S T> rV f C< ? ™V e ?ervedly at the dismal of . tho British -Minister 111 Peking to decide 1 , whether he should remain at the Kong ' borTf fcE A.ll.cf ClSeWhere a mcm " 1 . A letter was read from Miss Hancock e , aldour work here in the formal School goes on steadily. With tho influx of more American missionaries thero a of a rush and a, bust.e and he who doesn't prepare himseif is left out in tho cold entirely " NEW HEBRIDES. w n r? n " ■ • (i \ w - Aitken and the Rev. i. Lt. Bowie submitted reports of their interview with Mx Massey at Wellington • \W t0 \ h + ° P olj tical futuixj of the Agw rloLudes.—lt t?cls resolved to thi.nl""o m"" 0 for their services. 1 , e Kev O. M:chelsen wrote (March 22 1 i^' pri i . ' at . tilo stoamca- had not called ' his station since Januarv 2; that the season had been very poor for yams but ' good for broad-fruit; that tho mysterious : s.ckness, which he considered to be mcnin- ' gitis, was still hanging about; that there J had been a good sale of New Testaments : to tne natives; that ho had four or five ' advanced schools well attended; that ' f gamulmg is being introduced, some natives ■ vir S ant W it d /' SOn - ~i kind of " at ■ - Vila, and that, owing to the inadequate 1 • I?" f r . Vic P> the missionaries consulted ] » eonsidei;e<l 3t impracticable to hold the an- . n , ujl i ?y llo d, and he, as Lloderator--1 j, oocided to postpone it. In this connection a letter was received from tlie ' ' tL eV i, j r ton (Melbourne),, stating that i he had communicated with Sydnev as to ] Sf c s i ;inr^de. shippi,ig j .' boSto 6 th°o P °a of 1 ; ftom Februai-y. 8 to 15. Tho i u rl3tlan ' but now numbers only 66 1 : —the sexes exactly equal. '< ' „f Th °f ßeV ' M ", i' VatCl ' forwarded a report < ' 1 n in Nort h Ambrim < L s , dlst " ct )- During 1 the whole < _ time day and night the volcanic ash rained ' , unceasingly at Ci-a,g Cove, and tlie open< , service which began, with a missionary in a white suit ended with one who looked like , 1\ chimney-sweep. .Mr Filter distributed . the goods sent from New Zealand for tho . relief of the natives, also £84 12s 8d of I S M ° n S°ods from o>dncy, £20 6s in local stores, and £14 fop three bullocks), leaving £20 remaining, which . he would use for relief of special SAses of . hardship. As the copra industry is re- , turmng-, the natives are to con- £ tnbuto towards expenses. Mr Frater's csti- < ; niato for the current year is £84 for 15 t ' series, £12 lor Jaunoh expenses, J . le« £10 native contnbutions.-lt was agre«i i i a? V< s° amount'estimated, and to thank '■ Mr I rater for his continued careful over- < sight of the district. | , I,"^'^'' Kjchards, Cambridge, wrote that ' the Sunday school had decided to give ' for the current year for the wages of 1 tie ta" nc h assistant to bo engaged by tho •' Kev. \\. V. All 1 no on Ins return to Nguna. f Messrs Strut-hers and Co. forwarded* £20 * from sale of aiTowroot mado by the N"-una I natives for mission purposes. 3 ; INDIA. 8 It was reported that Dr W. J. Porteoua had been ordorcd into hosnital for treatment, t-liat on Marcli 3 he liad been three weeks in tho Officers' Convalescent Homo at Brighton, and that ho had been ' branded unfit for full service for three months. It "\vus resolved to express sym- . pathy with Dr Portoous in his illness and 1 , hope that his recovery may become comi plete. [ c M iss Douglas repoi-ted that tho oonior Y.W. Biblo Class, Gore, had con- ( t;-:buk'd £10 for tho maintenance of a native * worker in India for one year.—rhe Con- a i vener remarked upon the honeful fact that f ■ so many organisations—Sunday schools. { Bible classcs, and. so on—wore undertaking 1 th<? support of individual native workers s , in tho mission fields. 1' i Tho Rev. O. A. White, convener of tho a New South Wales Committee, wroto re- i 1 . garding Miss Jean Graliam, formerly of ! 1 1 ;! i - - - c

Southland: " You will bo glad to know that liirough a cablegram recoivod lately from India it would appear that lior health is improving and slio may not return to Australia after all." By request of tho convener, tho Itevs W. F. livans and G. 11. Balfour led iu prayer for tho missionaries in tho various fields, tho problems of their work, and tho difficulties arising owing to tho war.