WESLEYAN CHURCH, HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1769, 6 November 1883, Page 2

WESLEY AN CHURCH, HAMILTON.

Home Missionary Anniversary. L\^l evening the Annual meeting in connection with 'the .Home Mission was held in tho Tiinity Wesloyan Chinch, Hamilton. Tho Ku\s. Homy Ijull, Kaebutn, .uid Duke-! \vou i piesont. Mr Fiench, in the absence of y\i ]3uttle, occupied thechaii. Poifeions of tlju guuaiJ.l .tfiuual lepoit were read liv tho 1-Jev, Mi DuUuh, which .showed voiy satisfactory results, The levoiend gentleman then explained the woik of the mission, and the way the funds were applied in pioviding ministrations for the Maoiis and for spaisely-populateddistiicts, in assisting building funds, in affoiding theological training to .students, and work of a kindled nature. In concluding his lemaiks, aftei giving his heaieis a sketch of how much can be done when acongiegation is in earnest, as exemplified by a descuption of the lesiilts achieved by a small Scandinavian eoiigiegatiqn I}C niinistored to in the Wnlliijstcni Puqvpioe, h,u o.ai neatly a])pualurl to "t l)oni oi) behalf <)f the mussion, that it was an oliject deseiving theu deepest consideiation. The Rev. Heiuy Bull next addui^sed the meeting, and refeiring to two great classes of thinkers— the peshimihts and, the optimists • — he confessed to belong to the lattei class, and quoted some very interesting figures in pioof of the impiovement that had taken place in the woi ld, socially and religiously, dining the last few years, and was still going on, in the decrease of di unkenness and ciime, in the lowering of the death -i ate, and the gcneial am. dictation of mankind, leading up to the great ljecessity that qxisjie.cj for shqwing their thankfulnebn iqr. this state of things, and to still m«ss forward with such works as they had met that night to dihcu.sfi, to devote their eneigies and means to this objeot, aijd to infirease the fund at the disposal of the" minion for enliuglng ith field of usefulness. The Rev. Mr Raebuin spoke in a similar manner, dilating upon the importance of the enterprise. The choir sang several hymns during the meeting, and the benediction teiminated the proceedings.

Messrs W. T. fjunter and Co. \yill *elj at the Cambridge Yards 'on 'Saturday next, a large number of usefu} Ijorse's of all descriptions, double-buggy, &c, Btc. A fioticp j)y the Cambrjdffe poundkeeper appoars' elsewhcrft,' Mr T. S. Auckland will sell at Cambridge on Saturday next, <i mob of horses, now on the road from Napier. Tenders are invited by the Cambridge Road Board for for,minff and gravelling road from Camp's Hotel to the Narrows approach cutting. Intending investors in sweeps will do well to consult the advertisements of "Adam Bede," " A' Leo," and," La Don," which appears in anothcr t part.,of;tnis issue. ti , i '"'Mr I.j'Cpphrane.VUamiJton East, has farm CipwlJK, roj}er,"|fa(t sets,