CHURCH MEETINGS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 30 April 1914, Page 9

CHURCH MEETINGS

ST. THOMAS'S PARISH. Tho animal- mooting of parishioners of at. Thomas's Churcli, Wellington South, was hold Inst evening. Tho vicar (the llev. W. Fancourt) presided over a larce attendance. In moving tho adoption of tho report and balance-sheet, tho vicar referred to tho satisfactory state of the finances, as set forth in the balancesheet. Ho also mado roferenco to tho liible-in-schools movement, outlining what had been do no during last year, and urging parishionors to co-operato in tho endeavour to secure- a referendum on the subject. Tho speaker also paid a tribute to tho work dono by the as-sistant-curate, llov. W. H. Walton, during tho year. Next Christmas Day, ho stated/would bo the ono hundredth anniversary of tho landing in New Zealand of Samuel Marsden, tho pioneer of religious fork in this country, and in that'connection a. special missionary exhibition would bo hold in tho Town Hall in February., In conclusion, the vicar thanked tho church officers and tho parishioners for their help during the year. . . •

The following officers wero elected: — Churchwardens, Dr. J. H. Kemp and Mr. J. W. Salmon; vestry, Messrs. W. I' , . Christie, N. "W. Butler, G. Jeffs, M. G. Grenside, C. N. Lock, C. N. King, A Clifford-Smith, F. W. Ballinger, j. Ha-nor, R. A. Lock; auditors, Messrs. A. . Chaman and J. L. Varlow (reelected) ; synodsmen, Messrs. Thos. Eland and C.N.King. The last two hold office for a term of thrco years.

A motion on the' Biblc-in-schools question, which appears ' below, was carried unanimously " ' '

BROOKLYN ANGLICAN. The Eev. 11.. N. Hobday, vicar, presided over the.annual meeting of parishioners of the Anglican Church at Brooklyn last evening. The balance-sheet showed a deficit of £13 12s. Bd., but this amount is covered by subscriptions yet to come in. During tho year £50 had been paid off the vicarage, and as tho grants from tho Synod ceased in June, tho stato of tho finances was considered satisfactory. . • . . In moving the adoption of the report aiioj balance-sheet, tho vicar made reference to the missionary exhibition which is to bo held in the Town Hall in February next, and urged parishioners to do all in their power to help to make it a success. Ho also stated "that, although the Ladies' Sewing Guild had done splendid work during the year, and had raised £50 towards paying off the debt ou tho vio&rage, there was a considerable sum yet to bo paid in thatdirection. Until tho vicarage debt had' been wiped out the work of building a nnn , church could not bo gone on with. , The motion to adopt tho report and Lalirtice-sheot wa» carried "unanimously. .Tho secretary of the Sunday School submitted the report of tho year's work, which stated that a considerable increase, had taken place in tho number of scholars for the year, and that 'the finances of the school were in a satis- , factory stato. . Tho election of officers resulted as follows:—Vicar's churchwarden, Mr. W. Copelaud; people's clvurchwarcfeiV, Mr. IF. J. Jones; vestry, Messrs. Boddy, W. Tebbsy W. J. Westwood, Webster, J. AV. Bell, T. N. Johnson; auditor, Mr. A. Watters; syuodsinan, Mr. Tebbs. After tho meeting had concluded, a social reunion was held, and musical items were given by Mcsdaraos Johnson, Herzog, aild"Mri'l?i'obyn'. ''■: .no'/ •

ST. HILDA'S CEUItOH. Tho anminl meeting of parishioners of St. Hilda's Anglican Church \vasheld in tho churchroom, Island Bay, last evening. Tho statement of accounts and various reports were presented, and showed that the cluirclr had made- decided progress during tho year. The election of officers resulted- as follows ;—Vicar's churchwarden, Mr. M. T. MacEwaiii; parishioners' churchwarden, Mr. A. M. Anderson; vestrv, Messrs. J. A. Griffiths, J. Gruar, H. Innis-Jonci, A. 15. Johnson, A. W. Palmer, F. Pansley, and A. E. Vear; auditor, Mr. T. Proctor. At the closo of .tho meeting a voteof thanks was passed to those who had worked for tho good of the church during tho year.

BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS. At tho lirst. two of the foregoing meetings tho following resolution on tho Bible-in-Schools question ivas carried unanimously:—"ln accordance with the decisions of the General and Diocesan Synods, this annual meeting of parishioners again .pledges its support to tli6 objective of tho Bible-in-State-Schools League, and once mow requests r that a referendum of tho wnolo people of the Dominion be taken upon the question. This meeting oxpresses tho conviction that, inasmuch as tho referendum has been repeatedly requested by tho respective governing courts of four donominations representing 75 per cent, of the population, which request has been reiterated by the constituencies of those denominations, and further endorsed by n request in writing, signed by upwards of 133,000 individual electors, tho Government is more than amply justified in facilitating tho wishes of such a largo proportion of the people. Moreover, ;i3 tho request is not asking the Government to decide on the merits of tho league's proposals, but to allow the pooplo.of tho Dominion to come to ft decison themselves on tho matter, this meeting would, regret any action on tho part of the Government which by having this question standing over would thereby constitute it a disturbing factor at the next general election."