THE PRESBYTERY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 11 December 1930, Page 6

THE PRESBYTERY.

MONTHLY MEETING HELD. The monthly meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery was held yesterday morning, the Moderator (the Rev. T. ! Paterson) presiding over a good attend- ' ance. A report of the Property and Finance Committee, concerning the sale of a church property at West Melton, was adopted. The General Assembly. Delegates to the next General Assembly were elected as follows:— The Revs. J. Anderson, W. B. Black D. K. Boyd, W. G. Hannah, G. W. T. Hercus' L. McMaster, P. E. H. Paton, F. j' Tyles, J. Bobertson, J. L. Robertson, J D. Webster, and J. C. Young. Substitutes were to be the Bevs. J. A. Allan W. R. Hutchison, and R. M. Eyburn. ' The following sessions, to be represented on the General Assembly, received the approval of the Presbytery: Knox, St. George's, St. Giles, St. Albans, St. Ninian's (Riccarton), Akaroa, Halkett, Lincoln, New Brighton, Rangiora, Scargill, and Waiau. Application for Status. A report of the Home Mission Committee, on the application of Mr J. Gemmell for full ministerial status, was referred back to the committee for further consideration. The Presbytery decided to sustain the application of Mr D. N. Hercus, of St. Andrew's, for a license to preach. This was after reports on Mr Hcrcus's work had been read. Home Missionaries. The Home Mission Committee, reporting on the transfer of home missionaries, recommended that the missionaries' terms of office be extended. Tho committee'was not at all eager to make transfers. Removal expenses were heavy. The missionaries whose terms were under consideration were:—Mr A. Simmonds (began in Cust-Oxford, in April, 1926); Mr J. Farrar (began in Sefton, in December, 1925); Mr J. Gemmell (began in Hanmer Springs in 1921); Mr G. B. Jardine (began in Cheviot in April, 1928). The report was adopted. The Property and Finance Committee's proposals, with reference to grants to aid-receiving charges, were adopted. Call Sustained. A call received by the Rev. G. A. Naylor, of Lincoln, to the Hokitika charge, was sustained by the Presbytery. The Lincoln congregation, who were represented by a deputation, regretted that Mr Naylor would bo leaving them, but stated that they would place no obstacle in the way of his accepting the call. The financial position of the Lincoln charge would, it was explained, make the appointment of a successor to Mr Naylor a difficult matter. Mr Naylor, when the Presbytery announced that the call would bo sustained, expressed his thanks. At the conclusion of tho general meeting the Presbytery went into committee to discuss internal business. No statement was issued.