METHODIST SYNOD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3673, 7 November 1912, Page 5

METHODIST SYNOD.

IMPORTANT GISBORNE PROPOSALS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] DANNEVIRKE. Nov. 6. A t the Synod of the Methodist Church (Wellington district). Rev. Air. Serpell. the chairman, in his address, referred to the mission of inspiration and appeal which the church Was organising for 1913 throughout the Dominion. The revival of undefiled religion, the revival of faith and righteousness, was what the church needed above everything else. The best people iu the church were longing for this. If this country did not mind what it was about the Christian sabbath would be filched from the church and the world. The Bible-in-schools question was again becoming a live matter. He claimed that it was the right of every parent to say whether they desired their children to hear Bible reading in day schools. A referendum was the present objective. Owing to the Alethodist Union being consummated in February. 1913, a number of alterations in the boundaries, of the synodical districts of the Dominion ■were being proposed by the Union committee. A long discussion ensued on the report, which suggested the formation of a Alana watu-Hawke’s Bay district. Ultimately an amendment was carried that Wairaiana and Hawke’s Bay form a new district. Poverty Bay to lie included. Alanawatu, under this arrangement, is included in the Wellington disThe whole matter will be rediscussed a a conference, and it was decided that the Synod should not deal with proposals affecting other districts in the Dominion. .... ... T A request for a division of the hevmOtaki circuit was defeated, it being considered that the time was not ripe, tIiGUG u lack of social "nuaiiimitjv, -V motion for the transfer of certain AYellington property to the AVellington Central Alission was thrown out. A petition from Gisborne asking that the circuit be constituted a rural mission was forwarded to the conference for favorable consideration, the chairman of .the district to be a commission to visit Gisborne in the meantime.