METHODIST CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1918, Page 4

METHODIST CONFERENCE.

GENERAL BUSINESS. '* By Telegraph-Press Association m, , Dnnodin, a£a rca 0 J. lie home missions committee reoom- ■ njwded a modified, scheme for an ttbndged course of study Whereby those manifest mgedrcational fitness, capacity to study, ability to teach and aptitude '". TOnd " cl oi "rcuit ailairs might receive admission to the ministry utij^ loll '- 0 deeided t0 a PPeal to Methodist* to raise the gross annual mtt<J h ° mo IDiSsion fund tO . It was decided that all grants to aided i circuits, city missions excepted, and ! homo mission stations bo made, with a, lew to assisting them to pay a minii mum shpend of £225 to married minisiare's %I\° ma ? i6d homo \Miea, £l4O to probationers, and £l2O to unwarned home missionaries. | 1-ie question of the designation of a -ut-cessor to the .Rev. Hammond, general Ijupcn., endent of Maori mission's 3 »tr? ( te **° home wißsi ™ executive* whty o amalgamating the vosition of ■principal of the Three Kink CoSJe iviaoi i missions. The question of Maori renrcMntntW m synod and conference SS (he homo mission executive, sllveVT?<r°? Ie ' S report' us, .0,035 fichoiars-an increase of four .ternary of tho Church's operations in New /eaand wa s referred to a large Auckland committee. 6 The matter of Church union or federation w.th other Churches was rrfSS | A scheme for giving aid darin* «,« vai to supernumerary ministers *«« 2 li , Stevenson (Wiwgajmill mderook to put the scheme -in S£ tion during the year **«*• nexhi»i° Mptl l od ' ist the connex.o„al secretary reported that, bvmut o the war, new building and largeS Jtwiis had nearly ceased, but tjon was assiduously the year fiiasr. had been loqf«S|E ■Rmeral fund and £OSO fro?|Ddal •the debt 4o 1 £117,804,,