CALL FROM DUNEDIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 10

CALL FROM DUNEDIN

REV. D. C. HERRON ACCEPTS TRANSFER TRIBUTES BY PRESBYTERY An intimation that he had decided to accept a call to Knox Church, Dunedin, the largest Presbyterian Church in the Southern Hemisphere, was made by the Rev. D. C. HeiYon, of St. David’s Church, Auckland, at last evening’s meeting of the Auckland Presbytery. High tributes were paid Mr. Herron by members of the * Presbytery before the call was formally accepted. The call was signed by 814 members and 163 adherents, ma.king a total of 977. The membership of tho church is 1,124. It offered a salary of £ 800, with £IOO a year car allowance and £2OO a year house allowance and eight weeks’ annual holiday. The Rev. D. D. Scott, appointed by the Dunedin Presbytery to prosecute the call, said Mr. Herron had completed more than ten years’ vigorous service within the bounds of the Presbytery. Even when he came to St. David’s Mr. Herron had had wide experience, and now he was still better equipped for the work of this great church in the Southern city. He was very well suited for a large and central church. Mr. Herron was a man of wide vision, who thought on national and on international lines. He had the right type of mind and will for difficult service. He had always been deeply interested in all phases of th*church’s work. There was a moral vigour about his preaching that arrested attention. APPRECIATION OF WORK Appreciation of Mr. Herron’s services was expressed in a minute* parsed at a recent meeting of St. David’s Congregation and read by Mr. E. C. Farr. Further tributes were paid by Messrs. A. M. Elliffe and J. Robertson. Mr. Elliffe said he had first learned to appreciate Mr. Herron in Trentham Camp. He mentioned that, during the ten complete years of Mr. Herron’s ministry, the congregation had contributed for all purposes a total of £53,160. St. David’s, in the opinion of Mr. Herron, was one of the most wonderful churches in New Zealand, and he had been getting a great deal of the credit that was due to -the congregation. He had been exceedingly happy there, both in the congregation and in the Presbytery. He regretted he had not been able to do more for church extension as in the outer suburbs it was long overdue. He realised that Knox Church was a great task for any minister. The motion that the call should be placed in Mr. Herron’s hands was moved by the Rev. G. Budd, moderator of the Assembly. It was decided to dissolve the pastoral tie between Mr. Herron and his congregation as from the date of his induction to Knox Church on June 12, and the R<?v. D. D. Scott was appointed interim moderator of the vacancy.