METHODIST SYNOD.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 November 1912, Page 4

METHODIST SYNOD.

MEETING AT PANNEYIRKK

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DA.NNEVIR.KE, Last Night. At th,> Svnod of the Methodist Church,. Wellington district, the Re* Mr Serpell, the chairman, in his address, referred to the mission of inspiration and appeal which, the church was organising for 1913 throughout the Dominion. "A revival of undefiled religion, a revival of faith and righteousness," said Mr Serpell, "was what the church needed above everything else. The best people m the church we-ro longing for this, 'I honeed for it was unmistakable, and if thia country did not mind what it was about, the Christian Sabbath would bo fiicned from the church and the world. Tho bihle-in-schools question was ayain becoming a live nutter." J.!s claimed that it was the fight of every parent to say whether they .-desired! the children, to hear Biblo reading in the day schools-. A referendum was their present objective." ' " ' Owing to the Methodist Union being oonsumated in February. 1913, a number of alterations in the boundaries of -synodical districts in tho Dominion are being proposed by the Union committee.

A long discussion ensued on tha report which recommended the formation of a Manawatu and Hawke's Bay district. Ultimately an amendmentwas carried that the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay form a new district, "Poverty Bay to be included in the Manawatu district. The whole matter will be re-discus-sed at a conference, and it was decided that the Synod would not deal with proposals affecting other districts in the Dominion.

A request for the division of the Lovin-Ota'ki circuit was defeated/it being. considered that the (time isf •not ripe, there being a lack of social unanimity. A motion for the transfer of certain Wellington property to the Wellington .Central Mission was thrown., out./ l The ] LevifalOtdki " to take, a 'rnarried minister at the next ' conference. Wairarapa South/will be relieved from its obligation to take a married'minister for another year.

'A petition that the circuit be constituted a rural mission, was forwarded to the conference for favourable consideration" The chairman of the district to'be commissioned, to .visit Gisborne in the meantime l .