EAST TAIERI.

Otago Witness, Issue 567, 11 October 1862, Page 7

EAST TAIERI.

PRESENTATION TO THE REV. MR. WILT,

On Wednesday evening last a, meeting of the East Taieri Congregation wm held, for the purpose of receiving a eirpuiition from the Presbytery appjinted to conti'i 1 wiLli tho congregation, and to endeavour to secure their concurrence to a proposal to send their minuter, the Roy. Mr Will, on a mission to Scotland fir the purpose of obtaining a number of minis' en to supply the pressing demand? for minister! d service throughout the length and breadth of the province. After devotional exerciser, conducted by the Itev. ~Mv Stuart, the meeting was addressed by the Hey Mr Stuait and Mr Gillies (the deputation from the Pres.b\teiy), and the Rev. Mr Will explaining the reasons which had induced the Presbytery to propose Gliding him home, and urging upon the congregation their duty cordially to concur in the proposal of the Presbytery.

Several of the office bearers having expressed their sentiments, and the concurrence of tlie congregation having been obtained, Mr Will in a few sentences thankel the congregation for tic way in which they had lesponded to the proposal of the Presbytery. Mr Andrew Todd, M.T.G., an elder in the congregation, then ro«e ; and, after a few introductory remarks, pisented Mr Will, in the name of the congregation, with the following address, together with a purse containing 132 sovereigns, which Mr Will very feelingly aud gracefully acknowledged. East Taieri," Otago, New Zealand, Ist October, 1562. To the Rev. Wm. Will, Minister of the East Taieri

. Sir, — We the undersigned office-bearers of the East Taieri congregation, for ourselves and in name of tlie congiegalion beg leave respectfully to address you on the present, occasion.

The announcement of your appointment by the Piesbytery to piocced to Great Britain as their agent, to endeavor to procure by personal effort a number of thoroughly qualified, and suitable ministers, to supply the urgent and pressing wants of many congregations and di.stiicts throughout the Province, wholly destitute of ministerial services, has created in our minds a feeling of deep regret and sorrow at the prospect of parting (though but for a comparatively short period) tv itli one under whose ministry it has been our privilege as well as our pleasure, and we trust our spiritual piofit, to be placed, many of us during the whole period of your pastorate in the East Taieri church. While we do not desire to place any obstacles in the way of your undertaking 1 the mission to wliich you have thus been appointed, we cannot but feel that your absence must have a very prejudicial effect on the interests of religion in the congregation and district. No supply which the Presbyteiy can afford can make up for the want of our own slated Pastor, especially at a time like the present when examples are so numerous of a toial disregard to the public ordinances of religion. But In this we will not farther allude.

We owe it both to our feeh'ngs and our duty on such an occasion as the present, to tender to you our sincere acknowledgements for the Christian courtesy, the affability and kindness you have always shown to us, which have gained for you in so remarkable a degree the affectionate esteem and sincere regard of all classes in the congregation and district. It affords us great pleasure to bear testimony to the unwearied and unremitting zeal, and devoieduess which you constantly evince iv the discharge of the varied duties devolving on you, not only as a minister of the Gospel in your public and private labours for the benefit of the people of your owu charge, and for the interests of the Church generally, but a' so as a citizen, in your earnest advocacy of all those question 0 , having for their object the well-being of the community at large, in its' highest and best interests, moral aud intellectual.

We heg respectfully to request your acceptance of the purse containing one hundred and thirty-two sovereigns, subscribed by thp members and adherents as a small token of their affectionate esteem and regard for yourself personally, and of their appreciation of the value of your ministrations, rendered during the eour?e of your ministry, in connection with tlie East Tai°vi Church, for a period of nearly nine years. In conclusion, it is our most sincere and earnest prayer to the God of all Grace that He may guide and bless you In the mission which you propose to undertake, a.id if it be His willlo bring you again to your congregation and adopted country, that you may be long spared to labour in this portion of the Lord's vinoyard with increased zeal and devotednes^, seeing the pleasure of the Lord prospering in your hands, and your people bringing forth the fruits of righteousness. And may God grant, thnt when his purpose with you here sha'l have been all accomplished — when your labours in the vineyard of the Lord shall be finished, having fought the good fight, having finished your course and kept the faith — may your reward be on hi^h ; may you receive the crown of righteousness which the .Lord, the Righteous Judge, hath laid up for all them that love liis appearing. And should it be that we should never more meet on earth, we hope and trust that we may meet in Heaven, where partings are unknown and farewells are never uttered.

Finally, that the Lord may bless you and yours, and make you more and more a blessing tc the church and to the world, is the prayer of Your faithful and affectionate brethren in the Lord, (Signed) John Allax, Klder William Stevenson, Elder Robert Dowie, Elder Andrew Todd, Elder Robert Somervillb, Elder James Waddell, Elder Tuomas Cuddik, Elder George Siiand, Deacon James Cullen, Deacon William Jaffray, Deacon Arthur John Burns, Deacon. John Allan, Jdn., Deacon.

INDISCRIMINATE USE OF THE ToKKISU BATH. — The editor of the Olasgov, Medical Journal (the tjuaiterly number of which has just been published) in reviewing Dr. Fleming's work on " Life Assurance," says : — •' There is another practice which lips of late been introduced into this country, to which Dr. Fleminp does not allude, but which we are quite convinced acts in many cases in a most deleterious manner on the health generally, and especially on the brain aud nervous system. We allude to the Turkish Bath. However well suited it may be for the enervating and relaxing climate of the East, and the constitutional apathy of the sensual Easterns, we are convinced that it is perfectly unfitted for our vnriable climate and busy habits. Time hero is too valuable for us to go through the various processes of the 'tepidarium ' and 'sudatorium' with that deliberation and gravity which is de rigeur in the East. After a violent artificial perspiration in a stifling atmosphere, the cooling process must be gone through very gradually, or the result will be a chill ; and we speak from diiect personal experience when we say that a freqnent resnlt is acute frontal headache, with throbbing temples, and a distinct tendency of blood to the head. Several cases have come under our notice where symptoms of some severity have supervened on the use of the Turkish Bath, and we have heard of more than one case where death has been the result. We haye — and it is this which has led us to mention the matter here — the best authority for stating that one of the leading assurance companies in Glasgow had a death among their assured, the cause of which was distinctly and unequivocally referred to the Turkish Bt>th. No doubt the novelty is wearing off, and it is beyond doubt that not nearly so many people now use the bath ; but we think it is high time that the public should be warned against this, which, although it receives support from eminent members of our profession, we do not hesitate to call a great danger. No doubt it has a benefieal effect on the skin and on skin diseases, but these benefits we firmly believe are far more than counterbalanced by the risks we have mentioned. Hot, cold and vaponr baths are powerful instruments in the hands of the medical man, but let him reject the Turkish Bath as unsuited either to the people or climate of ow country.'*