PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4955, 19 February 1895, Page 2

PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

jj (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) 0 Ai'ckusii, Monday. IB At the Presbyterian General Assembly, the report on rcligioAd n morals, referred to the small prdfor- „, tiou of young peoplo coming to II church fellowship, the decline of t family worship, the lack of aggressive work, and the lapsing of children and adults from attendance at • religious ordinances, The Church was urged to do all it could to check intomperenco and other social eiils, ■) and it was recommended thattho committee continue the negotiations g opened up with sister churches with 1, regard to united action against tho present-day evils. Tho report was " adopted with a final clause to tho d effect that if the new Divorce Bill ;. were reintroduced in the next session I, of Parliament, the committee be ;o instructed to petition against such an alteration in the present divorce law. is The report of the widows' and s. orphans' fund showed that the inc. come for tho year was £4Bl OslOd, and the expenditure £316 13s 5d ss The capital fund is now £5685 17s )f Hd. i. The aged and infirm ministers' g fund is alsoinavory satisfactory co* edition. The income for the year tM * £349 18s lid, and the expenditure £921333 d, and the capital fund is h £3357 3s 3d. d A number of grants in connection ■- with the church extension movement o were authorised by the Assembly, i. The grants included £SO to Pahiatua, £SO to Hastings (Hawke's Bay), , £2O to Danevirke, £3O to Picton, 0 £25 to Hunterville, £25 to Stratford, . and various giants toother churches . ranging from £2O to £lO. 3 Tho grants for church oxtension f also include the following :-Taradale, £2O; Ormond, £2O ; Waipawa, £l2; Woodvillc, £2O; Wan- . ganui and New Plymouth, £2O; ' t Manaia, £ls; Halcombe, £2O; , Stratford, £25; Patca, £2O; Ohin- ) gaiti, £2O; Poilding, £25. 1 The report on education stated that no progress had been made in the way of introducing the Irish textbook of Scripturo lessons into the National schools, and recom- ► , mended that tho necessary steps be ' takon to secure a plebiscite of the parents on the subject, and thatother branches of the Church be solicited to join with the Presbyterians ft petitioning the Legislature next M sion, on the subject. Tho Assembly closed at a lata '\ hour to-night.