WAIRARAPA MINISTERS' ASSOCIATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10413, 6 September 1911, Page 5

WAIRARAPA MINISTERS' ASSOCIATION.

The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa Ministers' Assocaatiion was held on. Monday,, at the Presbyterian Manse, Masterton, by the kind invitation, of the Rev.. A. T. Thomson, 8.A.,8.D. Tiilere were present the Revs. A. T. Thompson (presi-liig), L. Thompson, A. Hodge, J. E. Parsons, and Ensign Avenell. A leltter from the actLng-secrotaiy of the proposed Lord's Day Alluuc* was read by Mr. Hodge, and the iatstrncited to keep- in eoro.miMMoatiion with the:.p!roposed a l "ance. ''"'* A saheme for the linMing up of the several ministers' associations and; ohiuroh councils in the Dominion was dificoased,snidf a committee formed to further tihe scheme, it being fellb that if the various associations and councils were in. touch with each, other, oomjbined effort in any direction: might the more easily be accomplished. The subject down for discniiSßabn. during the afternoon, was: "How bfest to ih«Bnease the number of ohoM worshippers." \The subject was opened by Rev. J. E. Plamsons. Aifterpoinlting to the small percentage of Sunday School children, who were to be found in our church servicesi, a fact which did not promise miudhl help to the cuhrch of the future, for tilt had to be realised that the. child needed to be trained to wtoship if in ajfifcer yeaJ'S the beauty and hietpfuilness of'worship was to be appreciated, Mr Parsons proceeded to discuss, various methods which had been, adopted with the object of winning from, the children greater interest in worship in. Giod's house. A mlost interesting discmsisdooi. folr fllowed;, in wthiich all the members present took part. It, was fejt by a! that (the children must be consiidiared in> the service, and that, some part of the tftme of worship should be given.' entirely to them. Arising out of the. diisousisaon was the proposal jbo hold a Sunday School I demonstration on some Sunday in; I October, if srucb could be .arranged-. I After thank® to the Rev. and Mrs- Thompson' for their hospitality land the Itiev. J. K. Parsons: for his paper, tihe meeting was dosed by En* jsSlgn. Avenell with prayer.