BAPTIST UNION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 947, 14 October 1910, Page 6

BAPTIST UNION.

H.'v-''/^'::''.'-'^ : C:'MISSIbNAR"E 'WORE. ,■ 'v^fev-' '/(By Aesociation.)/■:.'. \ ■££?.'■■t-.i ' : :'.Dunedit!;^October 12;/ : ■ SThe '/Baptist; Union,■ devoted;., to-day. to missionary 'work./;' The animal of .the /New -Zealand; Baptist Missionary. Sodety -was -;held;;.tb/is mbrhing,' when yari'ous./encouraging./reports'' were, axlopted. The'/', treasurer/'stated- that, the revenue for : the year on/general fund : was; JE2095. Aii'ckland contributed 'i £$&,' Wellington ; i£529,/.Canterbury//1JC290, 'and .Oitigo,MVt, and; ./.the:/ Baptist /.Women's /Society/ ,£SO. /The • report/ showed ..a ; debit balance, of SUk'.'Jt was urged 'that--India's 'present stateVof- transition, was an opportunity for /Baptist- evangelisation,/which-. might not/occur, again. / A-missionary: ,conversazione: was; held,ln the afternoon. / The /speakers' were' the-'). president' ■ (t/he Rev. William /Hay),' :tho Rev.'' J. Takle, and Dr.' North..... A. publio missionary meeting was held in the'evenin'g,'' , Mr. T.. Pettit presiding.!-'. A' welcome', was accorded Dr. and -Mrs;'.l Charles :North,/ recently ■•■' returned from'.Hastern Bengal, and- a farewell was given' -to -;Mr. and/Mrs..,Takle and /Dr.. Pettit, wbo, are'.soon:/ returning .'there,/ the .latter' as medical', missionary., /

:';;,;/,.'.' : /-V/--' :'.';// October 13. ' ' /At tue : Baptist. Conference.. to-day the. debate, on a .'motion relating-to the/opium traffic Svas resumed;','' difference /'of opinion was, expressed -as. to, the .wording of .".tho'motion, whiohi'was; originally to the effect' that: the union ' place on record its sense of the. huge;:disgTace'attaching to', the nation through its connection with the opium traffic, and regretting that Britain: still .held. China to the Treaty ■ of Tientsin, and; "compelled her to receive Indian-opium, and hoping'that China would be: offered :instant, freedom from the bondage of the treaty. '-'The. motion, slightly amended, was /adopted. A motion, also carried, commending: to:the at.tontion' of the/ churches the memorial of 'thesßritish members.of the.World's Mis-: sionary! l Conference,,' urging all churches to call public.'attention !to the.shame, of the' Indian Government's opium : monopoly, land continued-insistence on treaty rights wlipreby China/is;still, forced, against repeated protests and heroic sacrifices, and against, its. .undoubted rights as a sovereign State, to'continue to rccoive this deadly .drug..'•'.;-■...,

The budget in connection with the Indian missions it Chandpur and Brahmanbaria was.submitted by. Mr. H..Hotz (Wellington). Tho estimated expenditure, including a debit balance of /£152, was sbown'at J82195, and ; the estimated receipts at .£2OOO. "The budget was adopted. Mr. R. Ainbury was/announced, as the student" for ' tho, year, ': The conference closed to-night.