PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
CONCLUDING BUSINESS.
By Telegraph.—Frees Association. Dunedin, Last Night, The. Presbyterian Assembly appointed a committoc to receive amendments or suggestions through the presbyteries.' It was decided to include an international uniform lessons course; in addition to the Australian graded lesson 3 course, for the ensuing year's Sunday school examinations.
The presbyteries recommended that during the coming year they should do, what they could to raise all ministers' stipends to a minimum of £250. The board of governors e' Columba •Hid John McGlaslian Colle;. was appointed a committee to prepare a scheme of superannuation, and the governors of St. Andrew's College are to be a committee to prepare a scheme of college text books 011 scriptures, doctrine and history of the church.
Regarding Bible Sunday, the motion carried last year was again adopted. The collection is to be devoted to the British and Foreign Bible Society, or the National Bilfle Society of Scotland.
The assembly will meet in Christ' church next year.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1917, Page 5
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