PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 14 January 1911, Page 7

PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH

THE FIRST READING OF STATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Friday. At the Primitive Methodist Conference to-day the first allotment of stations was as follows:—New Plymouth, Revs. Liddell and Sharp; lnglewood, Mr. Gatman; Stratford, Rev. Metson; Eltham, Rev. Carlisle; Wanganui, Rev. Bailey; East Egmont and Whangamomona, one wanted at each; Wellington (Sydney street), Revs. Cossum, Cottam, and Dumbell; Wellington (Webb street), Revs. Potter, Harris, and Dawson; Wellington (Donald M'Lean street), Rev. Sims; Foxton, Rev. Clover and Mr. Maiden; Feilding, Revs. Sharp, Fowles, and Jones; Halcombe, Rev. Coatsworth; West Coast Mission, Rev. Cuthcn and Mr. Doherty; Auckland (Alexandra street), Revs. Cocker, White, and Faulkes; Auckland (Franklin road), Rev. Raine and Mr. Carlisle; Auckland (Eden Terrace), Revs. 01phert, Hyde, and Lyon; Thames, Rev. Hunt; Waihi, Mr. Mairs; Hamilton, Rev. Daniel; Cambridge Branch, Mr. Foston; Christchurch (Cambridge Terrace), Revs. Henderson, Ward, and Harris; Christchurch (Battersca street), Revs. Clement, Greendale, and Harding; Ashburton, Rev. Woolloxall; Geraldine, Rev. Mann; Timaru, Rev. Featherston; Waimate and Oamaru, Rev. Guy; Temuka, Rev. Harris; Dunedin (Dundas street), Revs. Knowles, Frost, Suckling, and Frost; Dunedin (Kew), Revs. Drake and Bandy; Invercargill (Don street), Rev. Laycock; Invercargill, Rev. Pvbus; Bluff, Rev. Dudley; Waikouaiti, Rev. Thompson; Edendalc", Rev. Benning.

I THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. The Rev. S. Henderson, retiring president, addressing the conference to-day, j said that members, of the church had i full cause to rejoice at. the progress j which the church had made. The prej sent membership was .'1273, an increase j for the year of 127. The finances were all in a sound condition. It was plain, , he said, that the life of God had been crowded out of modern experience by an inrush of other interests. They did not wish to return to the full programme of Puritan theology, but they did wish to bring their church, anil through her the people, to a sense of divine reality.