METHODIST UNION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10259, 10 June 1911, Page 6

METHODIST UNION.

RESULT OF CONFERENCE.

(By Telegraph —Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night

The re-port of the conference of the Committees appointed by the Methodist Churches to formulate a basis of union- states that the utmost harmony and good -feeling prevailed, and the decisions were unanimous. The main feature to be submitted to the courts of the respective churches' are as follow: The church to be known as "The Methodist Church of New Zealand 0 ; members in good standing in either Church to be recognised as members of the united church, and the status of Ministers and probationers to remain unaltered; the annual conference to consist of an equal number of Ministers and laymen ; annual district synods to be held as at present, with a Ministerial Committee at each Synod. A District Committee of emergency is also provided for. Quarterly meetings and church meetings are to be continued. Provision is made for the conexional funds of various characters. The Foreign Missionary Society is to be established as soon as possible. All church properties will be vested under a Common TrustAct. AM matters relating to Sunday School. and Young People's Societies are to be referred td a Joint Committee representing the two churches. No change is to be made in the basis of union affecting the constitutional questions or rights and privileges of .ministers or laity, except on certain conditions recommended. The conference of 1912 is to make provision for the examination of candidates and probationers in the following year by a combined committee representing both churches.