THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 5

THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

DISCUSSION AT THE PRESBYTERY. WORK OF MINISTERS ■ ® t apraars to', bo .the viow of. certain< "■■■ ; 'i ot .the older, ministers of'the Wellicgton ;' Prespytery.,-. that.;, there, ,ia !atnong their! younger, brethren a disinclination •:to;tiii-fi;f'-'IS, with their MUgidris'Views-in .direction.; were at' yesterday's'"' mecting -of 'tho' Presbybery, ' v . '-' l' .The .'question whether, MrJ- Ratttay,; home: ■ missionary .at ■ Pdngaroa; • should, be', .'44 Ithorised to under disoussion, • and in opposition, to - 'r'^. f ' the proposal it was .urged .that the Mode- ':3V;;<'jr rater should .;journey. to"; the. outlying;.! places'for. this purpose- ■ • ;■•. ; The Rov. W. Douglas (Kilbiraic) eaid, .mV'cotud^not.'dt^fhwV'imdeKtitDd^litj'^n^ strong desire for-homo missionaries to do f the work- of the. Moderators of . their. tncts. It hod been his • own lot," 1 as ■*!» ■ ■ t young minister on tho West' Coast, toi have under hie charge, not' only one or ¥ two, -but as- many as five different plaoea, i ;', v He had administoredcommumon rcgn-' ' larly-at Rosa, Kumara, and lteofton.mak- .i' : • ing the jou'rneys - by ; coach'and.;traini' Be- h'MM .ades,.<OT^ng"? : 6iivtlio.:Workyat-''HokitiKii:^la":"^ it- killii^f; in' 'fact/: lie"rather !.«nioyed- : th» : ;|p ?>■,/ travelling.; He thought the people, in out* ,j-: lying places' were" glad'to; meet thflir;Moi.;ffifi:i4 aerator. Ho' felt'that! the Presbytery .'-Vk- '' should not encourage have'; too - much of the work of' the'minis-; ters; done -by 'missibharies."''; ;Th«.iK' fetS . Moderators, ;mahy';6f; whom' were i young men,'might, show- a little ; ;!j[;#S and do themselves. The question was" adjourned to . tW. !•. • . .■next!meo'ting; il ->i>':\ : i,C^ ••.At a later stage, the meeting:had before:: it a request- Macdohaldj ■:i utifk , a licentiate,; acting 'as a;.home missionary '■ " at MasterWn, should be ordained as an elder, so as. to qualify liim to :di6peneo : : ;. v. : the: Rev. A. T. Thompson on a nsit to the'-..';?. 1 <■; !01d .Country.;!"";;;;;'■; S-t ' The Moderator.(the Rev;..W: J. ComnoX - . - ' .^.convener, of^aycommittee appointed the last; meeting of the .for,the \ pointed. out that the meeting, was a : emaU.l fj'; .one,.and4hat ; Mr.,Thompson,would hav«" been,, present had ho matter would come up for'KHlement;; : ; -:V '" ; v;'', «•' In .the: course .'of! di^p^on^'tb#'.'^i!^|i«S

W. Douglas said that' under... tho constitu- ■ .. rion of -the.Xhurohia' could only be ordained as J an.; elder acting.' for : three.■ year? as. a hom©'.mis-. . sionary. i Mr. Macaonald ; hai this condition' ; : v

■ Tho-Ecv, J;-Kennedy-EilidttvfKentj.Ter-'; vv> : ; race), said the casemight i'co'mo up 1 in: the '.. .. "Assembly ;if-. it:,tfere : .'pbstpohed,'.-.and? .he'/OS*questioned whether it would 'be vriso to agree dto a postponement , which' .; might •• -.; end in that way. " .. .-J-; ■:' l'he Rev. •J. Paterso'n" (senior. 1 St.-John's) said he ;the EOT. .Thompson;', of; Carter-. /v

: ton, : dispensing the ; .communion- at terton. He had a horso and trap; and tho • early: days ho; himself used-■ to rido on horseback- from: Wellington to' Mastorton'... : to dispense.-the communion,{and baptisms. • He - would Scarry: the? ito the' than assent the Presbyterj. i. The: , motion' for. oa*-'.;?i ried on/the : casting-'vote f rator. . XTj,