GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 512, 15 November 1928, Page 10

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PARLIAMENT OPENING ON WEDNESDAY The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, which is to be held in Auckland, will commence next Wednesday evening, when the Right Rev. James Aitken, the retiring moderator, will preach at St. David’s Church, and the moderatorelect, the Right Rev. Professor William Hewitson, will deliver the inaugural address. The annual conference of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union will be held at the same time. The assembly is the annual parliament of the Presbyterian Church, and will be attended by over 250 delegates, representing practically every congregation throughout the Dominion. After the opening ceremony on Wednesday evening a Communion service will be held on Thursday morning, and the business of the assembly will carried on at morning, evening, and afternoon sesisons until finished. Among the subjects that will be discussed are the appointment of a professor of Hebrew at the Theological College, Dunedin, in succession t* Professor James Cumming, and tat appointment of a new master of Knox College to succeed Professor Hewitson, who has held the position ““p* it was created. The defining of the assembly’s attitude toward a joint peae* manifesto, issued in "Wellington some time ago, will be discussed also. Church reorganisation proposals tjiai are expected to effect an annual saving of £I,OOO to £1,200 will occupy attention. In connection with this, ** proposed to appoint the Home Mission director, the Rev. G. Budd, as genej‘*j secretary of the church, with an in Wellington; to appoint Mr. V. ©• Chapman, of Wellington, treasurer in place of the Rev. W. J. Comrie. is retiring; and to ask the Rev. wMawson, missionary to the Chinese New Zealand, to take up also “j® duties of foreign mission secretary a year. 0 . The transfer of the Foreign sions Committee from Dunedin ■ Auckland, and of the Home Committee and the Supply and i pointments Committee from. Au :i' land to Wellington, will also be co sidered. On Saturday afternoon will be taken on a sight-seeing 1 of the city, and on Sunday city •*** suburban will be the visitors. There will be a j people’s demonstration on the evenw of Friday, November 23, and a aj* sionary demonstration in the tow Hall on the evening of Mono**’ November 26. tTtiUiß The Women’s Missionary Conference will meet in St. Sepulcnrw Hall from November 22 to Novem 28, under the presidency of Mrs. J Robb, of Mount Eden.