BAPTIST CONFERENCE.
YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. SECRETARY'S REPORT. Ey Telegraph.—'Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The conference of the Ba.pti.st Union of New Zealand was continued to-day. Rev. Pi. S. Gray, Union secretary, submitted a report which stated that the work of the Church had been maintained with fidelity. Three new Churches had been opened during the year, at Smithfield (Wanganui),'Mt. iilbcrt (Auckland), and Island Bay (Wellington). Several of the Churches had formed Young. People's Societies, and the growth of that work generally has been the most hopeful feature of the year. Home Mission extension work had been carried on in the Wbangarei district with success. The Manurewn Children's Home, a property representing an outlay ctf £!)000, had been opened during the year, free of debt. At present there were 47 children in the Home. The membership of Churches showed a slight decrease on last year's fixtures, owing to a revision of rolls. Members of tihe Churches and congregations had responded with intense loyalty to the call of the Empire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 4
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167BAPTIST CONFERENCE. Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1915, Page 4
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