METHODIST CHURCH OF FERENCES. [PER TELEGRAPH.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1489, 19 January 1882, Page 2

METHODIST CHURCH OF FERENCES. [PER TELEGRAPH.]

Christchurch. — Our correspondent wires last night : — Auckland ministers for the Wesleyau Conference, arrived yesterday. Sunday was spent in Wellington, where the Wesleyan pulpits were occupied by Auckland ministers. There is considerable public interest being taken in the forthcoming session. Forty ministers and an equal number of laymen are expected. The Rev. A. Reed officiates as president.

Wellington. —An Association wire last night, reports : — The New Zealand Primitive Conference is still in session. The Rev. J. Fergusson, F.R.A.S., was appointed representative to the English Conference, and the Rev. A. J. Smith was nominated the English Conference representative to next New Zealand Conference, which will sit in Auckland about j the 25th January, 1883. Considerable time was taken up with the stationing of ministers. The following appointments were eventually confirmed : New Plymouth, Rev. J. Long ; Wellington, Rev. A. J. Smith, Rev. R. B. Haasely, and Rev. W. J. Dean (superannuated) ; Auckland (second), Rev. J. Guy; Invercargill, Rev. D. Dutton, F.R.A.S. (one wanted) ; Timaru, Rev. J. Sharp; Thames, Rev. C. F. Barley ; Greendale, Rev. P. W. Jones j Ashburton, Rev. J. Dixon ; Dunedin (6rst) Rev. C. E. Ward, (second) Rev. J. Dumbell, and Mr W. B. Hanes (circuit missionary) ; Christchurch, Rev. J. Ward ; Manawatu, Rev. T. Saddler and T. W. Adaihson ; Geraldine, Rev. J. H. Luke; Oamaru, Rev. J. Clover. At a meeting of three Methodist districts a resolution of sympathy and condolence with the Wesleyan Conference in the losses it sustained through the Tararua disaster was unanimously passed.

School district annual meetings are advertised for 23rd inst. See advertisement. In a recent sermon by the Bey. Henry Ward Beecker upon •• Death " the preacher asked, " How should a Christian look at death ?" Mr Beecher replied — " Well, in the first place, he should not look at it at all— on purpose. Or, if he looks at it' he should do so only to stimulate himself to lead a better life here,, and hot to brood over the horrors of an imaginary hereafter." People wondered how" they would feel dying. "I'll tell you how you'll feel—most of you," said' Mr, Beecher; " you'll feel stupid j, that's' all you'll * feeK* You'll want to go to sleep. Dying ,is ,as easy as going to sleep in most' inst^c&l''^Once 1 in a while .there , a. triumphant or a frad^t d^tli,ipr a jemorsefil uea^h, but once in * udillipn t timee'^WftS 'there? such * rtachedtno significance ?to the 1 manner in