CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 14

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

psTho-..fourth--Triennial -Assembly of the- Con-1 t gregational.' Church will :be' kopened-in. nobart on January 23, . and continued I pdnring i j tho -week.-.; Eov. J.. C. Kirby • is to | Kwcsido,'and the union sermon will bo preachcd.i i % 'Kov,. Dr. Bevan. A number of ; interesting i ii-papers are down'.for discussion,-including "Ths | f KewCongregationalisn,"' bvEov.,'W iT. JSanch j i "Tho; Causes of Popular: Indifference to; Eeh- j

gious ...Observances/'- by Bfv. W. 3.. L. Closs, 13.A ..Hev.- W. .L. Patison is to read a paper on; "Thp' Weakness and - Strength of ! Congregatunalisra. m Home Mission Work " and other to a well-balanced programme .will bo hy Sevs. Dr. Gosman, I)r. Soseby, -R. -A. Thompson,,.. A.. Rivett, 11.I 1 . V, Pratt, G. Campbell,-and others. •; ".vTho. celebration of tho jubileo of ; the North Adelaido:;; Cprigrbgational ,;VChurch' (says ' ■ the "Congrcgationalist") marked also tho jubilee of Rev. Dr.; Jefferis's' ministry' in Australia. .' Arriving in' Adelaide .during the first generation ov .ita citizens, Dr. JelToris exercised a marked influence 'fol'good ;upon ;.t)io rising youth of: the city.. His 13 years' ministry at Pitt .Street, ! Sydney, was also a period m which very faithfulservico -,was; ronaored. by.;' hinv to tho j Chris-: tian'-community. ."At'.tho; jubilee services Chieft Justice War very happily, alluded to tho worthy doctor as ■ the/Nestor ,ofAustralian .Congroga-. •tionalism.