Wesleyan Conference.
(Per Press Association.)
Wellington, March 16,
The Wesleyan Conference decided to call women specially employed in church work "deaconesses,'' and recommanded the General Conference lo abolish the rule preventing a minister returning to the same circuit till he had been absent six years.
The proposal by Mr Sanson to confer equal powers on laymen to deal with all matters before the Conference equally with slergymen, evoked a storm of opposition and was lost on the voices.
On the motion of Mr Harding a series of resolutions was carried dealing with the Christian Endeavor Societies. Members "become ex-officio Presidents of these bodies. A motion to discontinue the system of invitations was lost, only the mover and seconder voting for it. j An attempt to give Home Missionaries of five years'standing a vote at the District Synod was lost by 31 to 19. It was decided to set apart an evening at the next annual Conference for the discussion of great social questions, i
The Wesleyan Conference, after passing a resolution deploring the tendency to secularise .the Sunday and impressing on all church adherents their duty of rigidly observing the Sabbath, has closed.
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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8612, 17 March 1897, Page 2
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