PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 8

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. (By Telegraph—Press *=sonlation.) DUNEDIN, Monday. At the Presbyterian General Assembly this morning the Rev. E. P. Blamires, as a member of a deputation from the New Zealand Council of Religious Education, urged a necessity that, education should be religious, and religion educational. About 90,000 children were not touched by religious education. The delegates gave consideration to the proposals for a forward movement in the youth of the church work, and. it was resolved that a professor-and director of religious education be appointed, who shall be an expert in religious education, and of sufficiently high academic standing to justify his being a member of the Senatus of the Theological Hall, and who shall have had adequate training in theology. The salary was fixed at £450 a year with house allowance. It was further resolved that a Sunday School secretary, who shall also be secretary to the Youth Committee, be appointed. The salary is to be £4OO, with a house allowance of £IOO. Christchurch was agreed upon as the location of the Youth Committee. The resignation of the Rev. R. M. Ryburn, present director of youth work, was accepted. In the afternoon the report of the Maori Mission Committee was adopted, and the assembly expressed sincere gratification at the continued progress of the mission among native people. Nurse Euphemia Doull, who has already given long service to the mission, was ordained as deaconess to the Maoris, and appointed to Matahi. A committee was appointed to prepare and arrange for the publication of a service book for the Presbyterian Church, and to report to the next assembly. The beneficiary fund reports were adopted, after discussion. A suggestion was received from the Women's Missionary Union, that the women's fund should be applied to deaconesses and to women home mission workers in New Zealand. This mailer was referred to the Beneficiary Fund Committee, to report to tiie next assembly.