METHODISTS AND TEMPERANCE.
(BT TSXSOBAPH.— PEEPS ASSOCIATION). Chkistohurch, Tuesday. The Primitive Methodist Conference resumed its sittings to-day. The Sundayschools 1 report showed that connected with the Church were 68 schools, 554 teachers, and 4770 scholars. There were 3273 juvenile abstainers. The receipts for the year amounted to £913, and the expenditure to £768. The home missions' report Bhowed an income of £2Bl, in addition to £IOO raised for the Wai>ganui mission. A motion was carried making it imperative to use unfermented wiue only at the Lord's Supper. It was decided also by 26 votes to 11, that total abstinence from intoxicating liquor should be a condition of church membership.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 384, 19 January 1899, Page 3
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