METHODISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 41, 28 May 1910, Page 5

METHODISM.

CONFERENCE IN ADELAIDE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Adelaide, May 27. The Rev. Mr. Youngman, of Queeisland, has been elected president of the Australasian Methodist Conference. The retiring president's address, while congratulatory of the substantial increase in the church membership and attendance, deplored the falling off in the Sunday schools. Ca the three years period there was a loss of scholars, but there was some comfort in the tact that every conference for the last year reported an increase, the total being 2327. He refered to the growing, tendency to deal with social evils by legislative Acts. On the whole the laws were an expression of the people's thought by Acts of Parliament was, however, little hope of enforcement unless the people were behind them. INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP. Received May 28, 1.5 a.m. Adelaide, Last Night. The retiring president of .the Australian Methodist Conference, in his address, stated that during the past three years there had been an increase in the membership of home churches of 8251, and among the Native churches of 2320. The attendance had grown by 14,723 in the home churches and 23,378 in the Island churches.