CHURCH LIFE AND ACTIVITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10481, 18 November 1911, Page 6

CHURCH LIFE AND ACTIVITY.

(Conducted by the REV. A. HODGE, for the Wairarapa Ministers' Association.)

THE METHODIST CHURCH. The. annual meeting of the Wellington 'District Synod of the Methodiisifc Ghurehi ita N<e\v Zealand was ■opened in Napier this week, presiids ed over by the Rev. S. J. Senre'X, ol: Masterton. Tilio- session opened' wrJiih ti eonvensdziicne' in tlie Trinity Soh'oa!.roomi iou Tue&diay 'evening. The chiaiv'man for the evening was the Mayor, JVlr J. Yigynir Brown, M..P. •On Mlonday ©veiling sermons by oani'daidates for the and pirobatroneim we.rc delivered by the Rev. ft. P. Eiirclick'l a,t Hastings, Ivlr J. I'a-rso-iis. of Mia'stertcni', sit Napier Trinity dhiurdi., Mr A. Miinifie, of JVhasterton, at the INiapier Wesiley Hall, and. the Rev. W. H. Speer at West Slh'om

Sympathy wins expressed, writh the chairman in >hijs ifia.mily affliction. EkbpKMisnticM.s of absence wore grafted .to senior brethren Revs. "W. Kerk nnd H. B. ißedsitone. mid letters of sympathy were Idirented to be sent to them. The. Rev. F. W. Tsitt, T. Lee and J. W'aird, wlhp ore actively engaged in- the Nio4icense work, were also i c-xoused. The election of Synod- officers rtes-ulted as ibl'lowis-: — Rev. T. J. Jlones as- secretary with Revs-. H. B. Ginger, W. M'ndin, and C. H. Roberts as 'assistants'; Reporters to New Zealand, Methodist Times, Rev. T. J. Wall-is.; to Wellington papers;. Rev. S. H. I>. Peryinan-; to N-aipier papers. Rev. W_._.Beckett. Tihe Rev*. F. Rtuids and W. H. Speev were- recommended to the ensuing Conference at Auckland-, t'o be irececlved into- the full ranks cf the I Ministry. ! 'Revs' A. F. Burche! I .!' and C. H. Olds we're reon'moneinded, to pa'ss in their year of probation. Messrs J. E. Parsons and A. J. Mim-ifie,-'both of Mla-sterton (ea.ndidates ifo'i 1 thte Ministiy) after telling t'lie story cf their conversion 'and cail'l' to the work, 'were- subjected to n t.lieol'Ogioail examination by the Rev. T. J. Wa'llis, and a't was decided that V'hey be recenrmended to Conference for traii'ndng. The report of the inciting governor of the Theologiicail Institution in Auckland -Elbowed splendid progress by the students.

THE PRIZE FIGHT BOOiM. WViiting to the editor of the A.C.W., the Chairman of the Viq■toriaii' Cfcngregatiojial Union, thk Riev. E. Da.vies isayis:— "With referimico ,to tilite campaign agalhus't thte Johnson—jMloVea fight, tlie Oiirisrtia.n comun unity is not out agaiinst 'boxing in general, though it believes there aire n.'c.ro oxu-'plleiit ways in \v|hich •men oniay develop, the manly qiuailv ti'cs. of coairage, and skill. We are tiga/iut the traffic in lighting, Which is twice cursed. It ourso& 'him that. gives and him that takes, amd degrades the public; taste. lis not Australia better in every way than that hard pagan world, whose gtodllators were butchered to make a Roniiaiii holiday ? Are we 310 better than the Oontinenta'l diucillist, whose palttry liu'nmir is only on the spit of a bare bodkin ? Are we to bo so tow do win as the moral* of a Spanish bull figihtP All of these can offer as* good iv defence as thtis. proposed figjilt, for at least they can claim (barbarian traditions, and these are ■eis's ignobPe than a deliberate descent of mnnimto oomuiea-ciaiisedi brutality. We are peir&uaded' hetter thing& tef our land tand its people. Stop the! fighit!"