CLUTHA PRESBYTERY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2546, 31 December 1902, Page 9

CLUTHA PRESBYTERY.

ORDINATION OF MR BUDD.

The Presbytery of Clutha met at. Milburn on Tuesday, 23rd, when there we . re preeent—Rev. Mr Miller (moderator pro tern.), and the Rev. Messrs Currie, Kilpatrick, Reid, Fraser, Howes, Blair, and Ramsay (ministers), and Messrs Adam and Sandilands (elders). Apologies for absence were received from Revs. Dalrymple and Macallister. The principal business of tho presbytery was the ordination of Mr George Budd as minister of the Milburn parish. There was a good attendance of the congregation, several of those present coming in from considerable distances. Mr Ramsay preached an able and appropriate sermon from Isaiah liii, 2, and thereafter Mr Miller, as moderator during the vacancy, put the prescribed questions to Mr Budd, who was then by solemn prayer and the laying on of th© hands of the presbytery ordained to the office cf the holy ministry, and thereafter Mr Miller, in. the name of the presbytery and by the authority of the Divine Head of the Church, admitted him to the pa&toral charge of the Milburn congregation, and, along with the other members present, gave him the right hand of fellowship. Mesers Reid and Howes then addressed in appropriate terms the minister and people respectively, and at the close of the service Mr Budd received a cordial welcome from the members of the oongrcgatfbu as they retired from the church.

A letter was received from Mr John Chisholm in connection with the call from Owaka, when it was agreed that Mr Miller take the services at Owaka on Sunday first and give the people a further opportunity of signing the call. Messrs Fraeei and Ramsay were appointed to support the presbytery's overture re the Sustentation Fund in the Otago Synod. At the close of the meeting all the members of presbytery were invite' to tea to the manse by Mr and Mrs Budd, and a very pleasant time was spent in social intercourse. Mr Adam, as the oldest member of the presbytery, wished Mr and Mrs Budd many happy days, and in their new sphere of life great prosperity; and Mr Currio welcomed Mr Budd to a seat in the justly famous Presbytery of Clutha. Mr Budd replied in suitable terms on behalf both of his wife and himself. The singing of the Hundredth Psalm, prayer by two membera of the presbytery, and the doxology brought to »& end a very pleasant tunic*