METHODIST CHURCH..

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3573, 6 October 1916, Page 4

METHODIST CHURCH..

QUARTERLY MEETING!

y -The quarterly meeting of tho officials of the Ashburton. Circuit was held in the Baring Square Schoolroom last night. There were present: Eev»' Messrs G. Frost and J. D. McArthur jmd 33 officials. Tho membership of tho church was'stated to be 280 adulte, til juniors, and 14Q on tho infante' v0115..,^ The income for the quarter amounted to £174 los, and just about balanced tho expenditure. The chairman reported that the

properties in connection with the Wills Street part of the circuit had been placed under a single board of trustees." Collections were granted to. the - Baring Square Sunday School and to the Wills Street Trust. . ' ' . All reports of the Sunday, schools. ; were of a satisfactory nature, and' the \ chairman, in his report on the church membership, referred, in feeling term*' 1 to the loss that had been sustained,/ through deaths on tlie battlefield, a£s S assured the friends of the fallen soldiers of the church's sympathy in their trouble. ;

The Rev. G. Frost, on the motion of Messrs Frampton and Brown, circuit' stewards, was accorded a hearty and unanimous invitation to remain in the circuit another year. Mr Frost cordially accepted the invitation. With regard to the appointment o* a second minister, Mr Frampton reported that the Rev. J. D. McArthur had accepted an invitation to another circuit, and moved that' the meeting expresses its thanks to Mr-McArthur and its appreciation of his work in- the:, , circuit, and wish him God-speed in hfo'. new circuit.

It was also unanimously agreed to ' ask tho conference not to appoint a . second minister to the Ashburton Circuit next year. Messrs F. Fnumpton, \V. J. .Brown, and John Watson were elected' representatives to Synod, and Messrs J. Moore, G. W. Andrews, and D. McKenzie as substitutes. It was also decided to instruct the delegates to invite the Synod to Ashburton for its 1917 meeting. The Home and "Foreign Mission Secretary reported that £47 6s' 8d had been collected for Foreign Missions, and that the effort for Home Missions*,; had not been completed,;, • Tho chairman reported that tho mission to be conducted by the Rev. Val. Triple, would' commence, in Baring; Square Church on November 19, and continue to tho 29th. I This was all the business, and the \ meeting closed. , '