PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
REPORT ON RELIGION AND MORALS
The Presbyterian Assembly, report on religion 1 and morals-^&M’^to^hS'small' proportion of young people coming into Church fellowships ; the decline of family worship; the lack of aggressive work; the lapsing of children and adults from attendance on religious ordinances. Pleasure is expressed at the progress of the Christian Endeavour Society, and string condemnation is made of the groWth of gambling, social impurity and intemperance. The Church is urged to do all it can to check these evils. The Committee submit that kirk sessions should confer on the duty of parents and the Church to children,, recognised by infants 9 baptism~as"ifcj)mbers, with a view to their being trained in the nurture of the Lord ; that ministers should preach these subjects ; that the presbyteries and the kirk sessions should confer on the duty of the Church towards the lapsed in their midst; that the Committee be enjoined to continue the negotiations opened up. with the sister Churches with regard to united action against present day evils on the lines indicated in' the report.—The report was adopted.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1716, 20 February 1895, Page 2
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180PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1716, 20 February 1895, Page 2
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