A Case of Distress

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 33, 30 August 1884, Page 2

A Case of Distress

TO THB EDITOB OF THE STAB. C . ' V. ' ; Sib, - Since; the entertainment for Jhe/ Wells family, it has come to my know- ; - ledge there is vanotfer :ffotty-..jttmes Gray, in a worse plight;— I called at the hospital on Thursday, while fn Wanganui, to see both of the sufferere, and^^r**^' ' glad, to say Wells is doing well,. but as fdr poor Gray, there is no knowing wienl he will be able to work again. "lw___' i 0 at present is a eompl<^ T wreek t/ ai*dJh*eta very muoh about hi* family and wonders how they manage tolive, theft. being[only one little boy able to do any thing, and a wife and fire children to feed; 'N«-s^sir«/r I was thinking a speedy way to rwi-ve them would be if our tclergy#isn #ad,* ; y ministers would kindly^ give^ out^rOn* their pulpits on Sunday* _-droihg, - -'stistt before the plate, was handed round to the congregations, that it was for the benefit of the Gray family, an^' they Wo&ld'dis--^ pense with the usual offertQry for the 'Church for. that morning, it woujLi bq the means of gathering something to get them food and warmth ap onoe during this cold weather, and each that gaye ! his or her mite would gojf rpmphurob fee'Cng ' they tad done something for Christian charity, and to the happier -^or-so— doing. I should like toysee the' firsV-* movement made in bur grind blil English Church oorn r Sunday ..morning :ne*cfr as f an r example to others. Feeling satisfied ypa~ Vill insert this for the benefit of 'fhe family, lam, &c., ;.,. ..-. r <r(u > ' Feilding, August 30th, 1884. vA ) y