N.Z. CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 6 February 1908, Page 2

N.Z. CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

ANNUAL SESSION. Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. The annual session of the Council of the N.Z. Congregational Union was commenced yesterday in tlio Terrace Church. A meeting "of the committee was held at 10 a.in., and at 11 a.m. a devotional meeting was conducted by tho Rev. W. Day. At noon the first business meeting of the Council was held, and the committee reported that it received with regret an intimation from the Rev. W. Saunders that his health would not permit him to fulfil the duties of president of the Union during 1908. Under the circumstances the .unanimous choice of the committee rfell upon the Rev. David Hird, M A., of Trinity Church. The following office-bearers were elected Te report to English and colonial journals, Rev. W. Day; correspondent to “Outlook,” Rev. A. E, Hunt; reference committee, Revs. J. R. Glason, W, .A. Evans, A. E. Hunt and S. Griffiths; finance committee, the outgoing committee with the Hon. G. Fowlds and Messrs A. Lindsay, A. W. Lends, W. F. Eggers, L. W. Thornton, and O. V. Leijohn; minute secretary, Rev. G. Heighway; corresponding secretary, Rev. J. H. Mackenzie. There was a large attendance in the evening, when the president delivered his inaugural address. His subject was_ “Christian Freedom and Denominational Loyalty.” Tho session will last till Wednesday.