METHODIST CONFERENCE
ByTelegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, March 5. At the Methodist Conference, the welfare of church committee reported the number of full members as 22,953, an increase of 290; junior members 6411, increase 510. The conference adopted a loyal addreai (reaffirming its conviction that His Majesty's forces are engaged in a necessary crusade against a Power that ignores the eternal principles of right and wrong, and seeks, by methods which are a dishonor to humanity, to crush liberties of others. The conference alfio reaffirmed its confidence that the Empire and her Allies will shortly triumph. FOREIGN MISSIONS. Dunedin, Last Night. The Methodist Conference Foreign Mi»sion committee recommended the conference to reaffirm its decision to postpone the allocation of a separate field for fori eign mission work until after the war; that the appointment of the Rev. Sinclair as organising secretary be postponed till 1919; that the Rev. Marshall be appointed Foreign Mission secretary at an honorarium of .€75, and that for the ensuing year the conference aim at raising £15,000 for the Foreign Missions. The recommendations were agreed to. Further con' sideration is to be given to the report at another- session.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1918, Page 4
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