BAPTIST UNION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2213, 17 October 1907, Page 1

BAPTIST UNION.

Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 10. Tho Baptist Conference resolved with a viow to celebrating tho silver .jubilee of the Union to nuso not less than £IOOO to establish an annuity fund for aged and infirm ministers. It was agreed to invito the Bov. AA r . Lamb to tako up work in Gisborne for two years, u<t £2OO per annum. Tlio financial statement showed estimated receipts £IOOO, estimated expenditure £IO2B. Of the latter £BOO was allocated to homo mission work. The annual meeting of tho Baptist AVomen’s Missionary- Union elected tlio following officers: President, Mrs H. M. Smeeton; treasurer and secretary, M'iss Spedding; vice-presi-dents : Otago, Mrs Mason, Canterbury, Mrs Thornton: Wellington, Mrs Blackburn: Auckland, Mrs. Kirkwood. ... Tlio Baptist Union resolved to tako over tlio llomuera Children s Home, hitherto successfully carried on locally. The Foreign Missionary society's annual report told of -a year of successful work in India. New Zealand’s missionaries had been working in the centre of the most disturbed districts in India. Antiforeign feeling affected tho work to sonic degree. Alodical work liad been effectively carried on in a hospital at Chandporo, tinder Dr Worth. Tint tho work was valued was shown by tho valuable gifts received from the Assam and Bengal Bail way pany and into firms operating ill the towns. Similar good work was done in a dispensary at Brahmanliaria, under Alisa Bockingsale. Every department of missionary activity had been vigorously prosecuted. Lho treasurer’s report showed that tuo deficit of £357, with which the year bewail, had been cleared off by. a week of self-denial. Tlio general income amounted to £1909, and expond it ur© to £2003, leaving a small deficit, which had been reduced since tlie year closed. ~ The Baptist Conference have instructed tilie executive to more in the matter of formation of. a Baptist Church in tlieCongregationalChurch Timaru, with a view to settlement of the united cause.