PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 12. At the Presbyterian Assembly, tonight, it was resolved that the regulation of the aged and infirm ministers' fund and widows and orphans' fund be amended so that no minister shall be considered to be connected with the fund till he has paid the first annual subscription, and that failure to pay for three years sball debar a minister from joining the funds without a special resolution of the Assembly. The report on the sustentation fund, which was adopted, covered the following points:—Fund to be based on the principle that the strong should help the weak; fund to be administered by a committee] appointed by the General Assembly; that every congregation should aid at being selfsustaining and aid-giving; that the church shall aim at raising the minimum stipend for ministers to £250, exclusive of house accommodation; that the minimum contributions required from the congregations to the central fund, before participating in an equal dividend, shall be £175 per annum from country congregations and £2OO from town congregations.
The report of the committee on the anplications for admission recommended that the Rev. Win. Trotter be received; that the application of Rev. A. V. G. Chandler be held over for another year, and that he be requested to give a written statement of the reasons which have led him to change his former views on baptism to those of the church; that leave be given to the Dunedin Presbytery to ordain Rev. E. A. A. Elsen, agent of the Presbyterian Social Service Association; that Mr Oscar Blundell be admitted to the Theological Hall; that leave be given to the Wanganui Presbytery to ordain Mr J. E. Ward/ Maori missionary: that, as Kev. E. Culliford has not arrived in the dominion nor his complete documents, consideration of his application be held over. These recommendations were adopted. The Auckland Presbytery was authorised to ordain Mr James Lowrie, who is going to Denniston.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8879, 13 November 1907, Page 6
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325PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8879, 13 November 1907, Page 6
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