METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18200, 26 February 1929, Page 5

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS. By Telegraph—Pre3.i Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. At the Methodist Conference the election of a Professor for Trinity College resulted in the Rev. W. T. Blight receiving 101 votes and the Rev. AY. G. Glade, 97 votes, in the final ballot. The ltev. Blight was then unanimously elected. A resolution recording deep regret at the death of Mr A. C. Caughey was carried. The report of Wesley Training College Trust Board stated that a pleasing feature of the year’s enrolment was that a large number of the boys came from Methodist homes, while it was also most satisfaifory that there was an increasing number of boys who were keenly interested in and desirous of following agricultural occupations. The past year had probably been the smoothest running year the" College had experienced. The farm was looking particularly well, and although the long spell ol dry weather caused a great deal of anxiety in the early part of the year, the year as a whole had been a good one. During the past few months the farm had produced 800 tons ol hav. and 180 tons of ensilage, while (300 fat lambs, 35 stud rams, and 40 stud ewes had been sold. Fifteen bales of wool were also marketed in 1928. Agriculture had been commenced, and at present the college possessed 00 hives of bees. A bequest of £SOO by the late Rev. W. S. Potter, of Ponsonby. for the I establishment of a rest home in the I North Island, for minister? and home | missionaries was announced. j WEEK-END EXCURSIONS. ' The Conference unanimously carried \ the following resolution: "We desire I to draw attention to what appears to Ibe the settled policy of the present I Government in the regular organising of week-end exrursions on the railways. thus apparently seeking to bring I in the Continental Sunday. We wish tc I enter our emphatic, protest against | this deliberate policy of Sabbatl: I desecration, because of its deteriorI a ting effect on the moral and spiritua wcl'J-.eing of (lie people. AVe sincerely believe this action of the Government to be opposed to all the best trade I lions of British people, in that il j helps to destroy the necessary quiet o! ! the Christian Sabbath, and helps L ! foster a clis-egard for the sanctity c I Lord’s Day. We therefore earn estl.v call upon the Government l < j revei se its policy, by the abolition o j such week-end excursions.”