METHODIST SYNOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 11

METHODIST SYNOD

MAY SESSION HELD MINISTERS MEET “There are signs of progress in the Church, and one of them is the new theological college,” said the Rev. W. J. Elliott, president of the Methodist Conference, in welcoming the delegates to the Methodist Ministers’ Synod. There was a large attendance of ministers and home missionaries at the conference, which opened on Tuesday in the Pitt Street Church. Mr. Elliott explained that the May Synod had begun as a ministerial committee, but was expanding into a second annual synod, with spiritual progress for its main aim. Church works were mentioned by Mr. Elliott. He said that at Paerata Wesley Training Colege the erection of a memorial chapel had been cor>i.menced. The Pukekohe parsonage had been enlarged and a new parsonage erected at Port Albert. A new Sunday school had been erected at Edendale, and new Bible class rooms at Northcote. A vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. Frank Myers, of Auckland. The meetings culminated in a series of inspirational services, held in five of the chief churches of the city and suburbs. The speakers in each case were visiting or newly-appointed ministers, and home missionaries, the chairmen being prominent laymen of the church. Good attendances and splendid results were reported from each place. Coupled with tlie synod has been the winter school of theology, which has been in session for the past two days. The group study method has been followed in the morning meetings, upon topics of intense practical interest. The afternoon meetings, specially for home missionaries, have been held at “Dunholme,” as theological classes, under the guidance of Drs. C. H. Laws and H. Ranston. The evening meetings in the Collegiate Church have taken the form of lectures on Old and New Testament Books, by the college principal and professor.