WESLEYAN DISTRICT MEETING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4574, 17 November 1875, Page 2

WESLEYAN DISTRICT MEETING.

The session opened again yesterday morning at 10 o’clock. . . ■ 6

1 heS-ECRETARYread the fifth chapter of 2Corinthians, and prayer was offered by the Rev, J. G. Carr.

The district record was read and confirmed.

The Chairman read a letter from the RevJ. J. Lewis, stating that he was partially restored to health. The meeting decided that the question of return to the full work of the ministry be remitted to the Conference, and and that a letter of sympathy and congratulation, containing also a copy of the above resolution, be sent to. him. The report of the student’s character and ability was sent in and discussed. It waa highly satisfactory, and Mr. S. Lawry was supplied with examination papers in Greek,. Latin, English literature, geography, history,. Algebra, Euclid, and divinity. It was regretted that no report had been received from the committee appointed by last Conference to consider the propriety of establishing a theological institution. Resolved, that the meeting is of opinion that, for the present, candidates be placed under the care of ministers, who will give theological training, other provision being made for their classical tuition.

The meeting expressed its opinion that there was a growing necessity for the establishment of a Sunday school union for the colony. A conversation then took place on the subject of Church membership, and it was resolved that the number of communicants not connected with class, be reported to district meetings and Conference, and that an additional column for the enrolment of the same be inserted in the general returns.

In order to obviate some of the difficulties connected with the annual locating of the ministers, the meeting decided to ask the attention of the Conference to the present unsatisfactory arrangements for fixing the station of the ministers, and recommends that after the station sheet as sent up by the Stationing Committee has been considered, and suggestions made, it be returned for amendment, and that no vote of Conference be taken upon any single appointment, but only upon the stations as a whole. It was also resolved, that the Conference be requested to take steps to bring under the supervision of chairmen of districts the lay missionaries connected with the Church* and that such missionaries and ministers of districts receiving help from the Home Mission Fund, be required to furnish annual reports of their work to their respective district meetings. The Rev. J. Law read, according te custom, the twelve primary rules, and the minutes of the Liverpool Conference, held 1820, when a lengthened conversation of very considerable interest ensued on subjects affecting the spiritual welfare of the Church. The Chairman pronounced the Benediction, and the meeting adjourned till this morning at ten o’clock.