UNITARIAN CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 2

UNITARIAN CHURCH.

About sixty members''of the Unitarian Church attended > the annual meeting in .the Masonic Hall last evening.-.,... !.■;■■;:.. ,Mr. John Gammell, who prseided, said that the annual report and baliincc T shcet, already, published, showed that tho Unitarians in Wei-, liiiglou were a lire'organisation. , The niost sanguine of them did not anticipate such rapid progress in three years.'' 1 : The".minister, Br'.; Tudor Jones, bj'- his earnest" preaching,; had continued to attract large audiences of interested men, Sunday by .Sunday,- to hear him ex-' : pound tlie great.thoughts ofitlio great thinkers of the time.; He had also gathered' together, and taught on, modern lines, a Sunday,school of some fifty, children.. The event of- tho.-ycar,.; he thought, was the fiuloiulid contribution of .£2so"made to the building fund, by the ladies' ' guild,"as : llio result of a sale of work.' lie be-'... liered that there was more to follow/ Tho report and balance-sheet were adopted. Dr. Tudor Jones expressed his- thank's for faithful help from many members of tho' 'congregation, and. stated that undoubtedly the movement:.was now on a .socuro basis.- He thanked a lady present who : had juot presented a cheque for ,£lO tow-mis the building fund. Ho intended to do his lies'}; for. the movement.'hot only in Wellington, but. as' far. an possible in other parts of the Dominion. "' • The- following officers ■ were eloctcd :—Secre-. fary, Mr. IT. Joosten; 1 assislant-secreta'rv, Miss ' Oaklcy-Hrownc; treasurer, Mr„\V;C; Stephens; ■ committee, Mrs. Foil, Miss' Newton, Professor M'Kenzie, Messrs. A .Collins,' A.v Forrest/ M.. Gaudy, J.' M. Geddes, and, F. Sampson.