PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 188, 18 November 1910, Page 5

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

.- SOME IMPORTANT DECISIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The business of the Presbyterian Assembly of New Zealand for 1910 was concluded this afternoon. The report of the committee on ministerial tenure ! stated that almost all the Presbyteries and sessions had agreed upon two points of grave importance—firstly, the abolishing of candidating by restricting congregations to ithe consideration |of one name at a time; and secondly, requiring ministers, except for reason's approved by their Presbyteries, to stay at least five years in their charges. To adopt these suggestions slight alterations were necessary to be made to three sections in the Order Book. On the motion or the Rev. Mclvor, it was resolved that the amended regulation be sent down to the Presbyteries under the ''Barrier Act." As the result of an overture from the Auckland Presbytery, it was agreed that a standing committee be set up to receive applicants for admission, coming from the Church of Scotland, the Irish Presbyterian Church, the Free Church of Scotland, or the English Presbyterian Church, and, if their commissions be in order, the Presbyteries be empowered to receive them. At present such applicants have to await the sittings of the Assembly. As an outcome of the committee's recommendations the Assembly resolved, on the motion of the Rev. W. J. Comrie, seconded by the Rev. I. Jolly, "That the next Assembly meet on November 8, 1911, at Dunedin."