CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1914, Page 6

CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

THE ANNUAL MEETING. \ V [Per Press Association.] Auckland, February IS: The Congregational Union appointed the Rev. W. Saunders to represent the Union on the Australasian Commission to co-operate with other churches throughout the. world in furthering the movement towards various communions of Chrisendom. Tc was resolved that the Council rei n -es in the growth of sentiment in favor of the abolition of the liquor traffic from the Dominion and of the poss.'nlity-ol a reduction in the three-fifths majority, and urges members and adherents to do their best in seeking to remove a menace to social and religious life at the forthcoming poll. The council expressed its hearty approval and cooperation in the suggested formation of the New Zealand, branch of the Associated Council of Churches in the British and German Empires for fostering friendly relations between these two peoples. It was resolved to recommend the committee of the union to move slowly in the starting of new work in the back-blocks of the Dominion in a new determination to open churches in the towns and cities. The pastors’ provident fund: was reported to have amounted to £4484. The London Missionary Society stated that the contribution totalled £458 13s 3d : against £BB3 13s during the previous | year. Complaint was made that no acjtion had been taken by the Govern- ! meat in the matter of the representaj tions made in regard to a certain Cook ' Island official having, it was alleged, exceeded his duty. It resolved that the Premier be again interviewed on the subject. Officers we re elected, the chairman being the Rev. Mr Saunders, 1 and the secretary, the Rev. Mr McKenzie if stationed at Auckland.