PRESBYTERIAN BIBLE CLASS UNION.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16723, 5 January 1920, Page 3

PRESBYTERIAN BIBLE CLASS UNION.

* AKNFAL COXPERENCE. J (rRESS ASSOCIATION TKI.ECRAU.) I TIM.VHU, Jonusry This week Tim am !ir.s or.tcrtoined the annual conference of the Presbyterian Biblo Class ITnion, with an attendance of nearly' nino hundred delegates, mo3tly po o pie, and a number of ministers from various narto of the Dominion as t«ichera, lecturcns, and leaders. Busine«» mattcrr. rc'atir™ to tho young men's ar.d young women'o orrani»---.tio:ja respectively were i.ret nUondcd to. The mnrcings are devoted to r.tudy circlco r.!. icr > capable leaders or addrc-sst-s or. suitable 'jui:- : jeetu, such a» expcriencca in special fields of I work. Tcachors' cl.icsca arc also held. Tbo > afternoons are devoted to recreation —tennis, ; cricket, eea bathing, etc. Thero was a gard<--n party on the Girls' High School gToundH on ' Thursday, ond pports on the Boys' High , Schocl grounds on Friday. Professor Howi'-icn, of Kncx spoke 1 on Thur&day on tho effect of the udverto ; oxohango rates on rcmila for Balari<a to the ! New Zealand church miasionnrics in India | and China, especially tbo latter, tho prcsonti i rates rcqmrinj 70 per cent, more for India, ! and for China 150 per cent. more, the value i of the sovereign having dropped from f.ftocr. i to nino rupees in tho former and from ten Chinese dollajs to four ir. tho latter. To j maintain the proc-ent calorics of £7000 per ' year, more money was needed, and efforts } ehould be mado to xaiso an ccr.erjoncy fund . of £10,000. He urged tbo dc«cg*t*o to ;::rke \ the situation known when thcr returned to I their homes. The conicrenoe. which clones to-morrow, hes | been favoured with £no weather, ond the ' visitors eulogised the arrangements for th-ir j cornicrt, and the valuo of tho teaching, n- ■■ touragement, and inijpiratian roce;ved- { ■ I