THE METHODIST CONFERENCE.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S RALLY. • TO-NIGHT'S OPENING SESSION. . Tlio Ministerial . Committee. oi\tho'New Zealand .Methodist .Conference was .opened yester : dny ; morning:'';'in. : '.\Vesley'i, Church,. Taranaki; Street. •, The: proceedings not' open,to'; the: press.'. : A:young people s rally was ; held iff the; church last ■ evening, ■ and . the ..formal. opening : pf: the conference proper will, take: place- this evening, commencing at 7.30. .The address; of the' retiring president. (Rev. C. E.. Beecroft,. of I'eilding), the election of. a new : president, and ' other business is. set' .down- for to-night. \Close oh.200; delegates, are. expected to'attend, the conference. ' . :' i': Last' eight's' rally was held in the interests of the Bible Class Movement and' the Christian Endeavour: Societies.: The president of the conference.(the .Eev v; C.,:E. Beecroft) occupied the; chair;'• He expressed the gratification of the; Churoh'- that' the' Rev.' A.' B. Chappell, the organising secretary of■> the Bible Class Move-, raent,; had escaped the disaster. of the loss., of the Penguin/ he having been a passenger, on its fatal trip as far as Picton. . : The Rev. J. T. Pinfold, president of . the: Now. Zealand Christian Endeavour ;. Union, offered'prayer. . , ;The Eev, A.' B.;-.Chappell, : .MIA., -expressed: his thankfulness to God-for. his deliverance, p.nd his deep regret, at ithe' sad loss of life' in connection': with tho '.wreok . of. the Penguin. In'ithe 'course-of'.;his;speech, he. laid special emphasis . Christian: Endeavour movement, and' showed that the active Endeavourer had a threefold duty—firstly, to himself ) seo.ondly, to others less privileged; and thirdly, to Christ, whose love and power would enable him to fulfil-these. .■'. . .
Tho. Rev. T: G..,Chapman,:,Wanganui, delivered an eloquent speech,on "Ideals," in which he showed that all. progress was the result of vision. - •
iThe Rev. F. Copeland, of Tarnniilci; spoko on the .needs: of-young Methodists,-: which he summed 'up as—first, the - need of a heightened, senso. of their own importance ■ to the Church second, increased loyalty to the' Church; and, fhird„.a clearer realisation of the presence and power of. Christ. - ■ ; v
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 441, 25 February 1909, Page 5
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320THE METHODIST CONFERENCE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 441, 25 February 1909, Page 5
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