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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 777, 24 September 1853, Page 3

3lissionary Tea Mketing. -The Tea Meeting of the friends of the Wesleynn Missionary Society, as advertised in our last, was held on Wednesday evening, and proved an occasion of much interest. Upwards of three hundred persons were present. Tl e Chapel »vas fitted up very tastefully, and so as to afford a large amount of accommodalion, planks having been thrown over the lops of the pews, thus forming one large room tor the company. Transparencies and Flags were exhibited at the upper end, having the following inscriptions :—"Go ye into ali the world and preach the Gospel to every creature:"-—"He is given for a light to the Gentiles, and the salvation of God to the ends of the earth:" -"Who are the?e that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?" "Glory to God in the Highest," etc. After tea, the Chair was taken by the Rev. Waller Lawry, and appropriate addresses were delivered by the Rev. Nathaniel Turner, Rev Thomas Williams (from Fejee), and Rev. Robert Young, of Loudon. In the course of the evening, Mr. Elioit, en behalf of the Auckland Wesleyan Society, gave an outline of the rise and progress of Methodism here, from the time when the first sermon was preached in a saw pit by Mr. Buller to the present,—welcoming Mr. Young as the representative of the British Conference, and expressing the gratitude of the people for the support afforded by the agents of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in the infant state of the colony. Before the close of the proceedings, the Rev. T. Buddie announced that Mr. Young will preach twico on Sunday next (to-morrow),—in the morning in the Presbyterian Church, and in the evening in the Wesleyan Chapel.