THE CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5194, 15 July 1891, Page 2

THE CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE.

(Pbb EtKoraic Tbi,eobai'h — OopYhzaui.) (Pish Press Association.) (Reoaived 10.45 a.m., July 14th.) ■London, July 13. The delegates to the Congregational Conference have arrived. The Rev. L. D. Bevan of Melbourne presided m the City Temple yesterday. The Liberation Society gave a breakfast at which two hundred of the delegates were present, and m the course of an address the Rev. Air Bevan testified to the great advantages the yarious religious bodies enjoyed under the voluntary system existing m the Australian colonies. Great Britain, he said, was years behind the colonies m tiie matter of education. He advocated free, compulsory, and secular education, and advised the study of the Bible m schools for the sake of the literary merit of the book. The Rev. Thomas Rosbery, another of the Australian, delegates, maintained that every sect had an equal right t» English Church property, and was amazed that Westminster Abbey wa3 allowed toremain m the hands of a single sect. . (Baoeived 7.30 p.m., July 14th.) The Congregational Conferenca a . sembled for business to-day. A resolution of condolencs with Mr Spnrgeor, was passed. The Rev. Mr Grosman, - o f Melbourne said that Mr SpurgaonV, sermons supply the want of ministers '.n the bush.