CHURCH UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 76, 16 August 1912, Page 5

CHURCH UNION.

THE COMMITTEES' DECISIONS. ; " By Telegraph—frets Association. Cliristchurch, Last Night. The committees appointed by the Methodist Church and the Primitive Methodist Church to consider union affairs met on Wednesday and decided that ■ the first united conference should meet in Wellington on February 6. Re membership of the first, stationary committees, it was decided for the first conference that each church appoint its own stationary committee in tlfe usual manner, these to unite to make appointments for 1013. It was decided that ministers of the 'Primitive Methodist , .Church uniting with the Met'hodist_ Church should be required to purchase.' from the superannuary fund of the United Church benefits equal to not less than the prospective, benefit to which, they may be respectively entitled from the funds of the Primitive Methodist Church at the time of union. Kb the 1913 conference, it was decided that the representation as provided for in thci baas of union should be adhered to; The committee also recommended that at the first united session of the conference Dr. Youngman, president of tha general conference of Australia, should preside and conduct the elections, and that ob the evening of the same day a public gathering should be held in the Wellington Town ITall at which the declaratien of union should be signed and attested.