MINISTERS'. ASSOCIATION.
———♦ .. ' ■ 1 * THE GAMBLING ACT. The annual meeting of'tie Wellington Ministers' Association was held last night in the Y.M.C.A. .B-ooius. ..The report of the year's work showed that' various mat-, ters affecting public v;elfat£ had engaged the attention of the association.; that the mission.of Dr. Henry under the auspices. ' i of the association lad been eminently '■ . , successful; and that Dr. Chapman aad Mi , . Alexander would probably visit the Dominion some time within the nest two . years. During tie year papers and ad- . dresses had been given, by members aa follow:—"The Miraculous Element ia Scripture," by Eev. W. Douglas, _M.A.> "Walker's 'Spirit and the Incarnation,"' \ ' by Rev. Dr.-Gibb; "Pragmatism," by Rev. J. Reed Glasson; "Sabbath Observajice," by Rev. E. Inglis; "The Theplogi-. cal Trend of Congregationalisra," by Eev. •' J. Rcttl Glasson; "How Ministers and Churches may Conserve the. Eesults of the Mission,", by Dr. J. Q. A. Henry; ■ : "Preventive Evangelism," by Bev. A. B. .. ■ Chappell, M.A. . Complimentary ' reinaTks were made with regard to the work' done by the, president- of the association, the Eev. J. Kennedy Elliott, and the secretary, the Rev.' J. R. Clark, and both gentle- . . men. were ro-eleoted. , A resolution, moved by the Eev. J. J. North, was unanimously adopted as Mlows:—"The Wellington Ministers' Association records its warm approval of the , strictures passed by Jtr. Justice Chap- . man on the Gambling Act so far as it ■ concerns the~ licensing- of bookmakers. The association believes the time,is oportune for the organisation of the 'widely-ex-pressed opposition to bookmakers, and endrses tho proposals of the Anti-gamb-ling League to organise a national deputation to %> Premier -with-' the, object of securing the immediate repeal of the bookmakers' clause." The rest of the time at.the disposal of members was spent in. discussing a paper on "Socialism, read by the Roy. B. . . llutson. '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 6
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299MINISTERS'. ASSOCIATION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 854, 28 June 1910, Page 6
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