Wesleyan Conference.
(PEE PHKSS ASSOCIATION > Adelaide, Mj»t 24. Tlie Wesleyan Conference referred the proposal of the New Zealand Conference for revision of the hymn book to the annual district conferences for reports. Adherence to the principle of direct local veto without compensation to publicans was affirmed. The report of the committee upon the basis of union with the Methodist Church was adopted. Among other things recommended as a means of hastening union was that each annual conference should invite the other Methodist bodies to join, and ere- ] ate a federal council within their own bounds. This Day. The Conference has practically concluded. The regulations with reference to women preaching have been expunged from the constitution. It was decided when the final vote is taken on the consummation of a union with the Methodist Church there must be a two thirds majority.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 322, 25 May 1894, Page 3
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