Presbyterian Church AnnuaJ Meeting

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 97, 31 January 1885, Page 2

Presbyterian Church AnnuaJ Meeting

■- •«■■ ■' : -; i - • :'•:■■ v*b.>y i: o l -The-follbwing is the financial report of the Presbyterian' Church, "FeiMiag, for the year ended 31st December, 1884, as read at tKe annual jin'^etjng on Wednesday eyenjnglasf , "*'""' The committee have again iojtjei>ort satisfactorily of the financial c<^&t):on of this church. ... Sabbath. ; ooUec^ions show an increase upon* those bi 4JPB3 of £1 1" 7s 7d whikt subscriptions-have fallen off by £6 "5s 2<l pointing to the necessity for greater care and regularity on the part of collectors, whose duties, however, would' be 7 lightened if sub- . scriher& came f or ward,uffit§ad gffbeing called upon for, payment" "The total ! revenue has increased dgrjfkg/tbergrear by. £12. Of the specifdAiODllections directed to be made by the Cfeneral Ass'einbly-, 'only those-' i for [jQfiJrch extension and Sabbttth Ijhliool jprjite announced but resulted in nothSßg more" than the average ' A eollet!£loii. The 'committee Would': take thwlopporr t\inity of reminding the congregation in this connection, that the' aretage weekly collection i» first deducted and .only any surplus devoted to the special object : so that unless more thtth'^ual liberality is shown rid gdod will result ; from special collecting. A small credit balance is always mairitkiiied/Abut as much as possible is devoted to making supplements to, the stipend which is felt to be 'altogether too small ' when it is -' considered that : aLggaose i» not • yet ' provided'.^ / tafe>'/6nances of Halcoinbe r are, now from those 1 of Fellding^nft the committee 'of maaajgement in that place will

no djojlbt shortly, make a statement showing iiow'far their resources have enabled them to assist in maintaining our^ minister. ' "- Sirice our last report theyWe -etmipte^d tW building of a commodious ftiid ' Vell^finiflhed church, which -lifcß dufowHiß' feed of debt a fact -Miiten *&**» creditably upon the ffiwii»BTßy»afi*'«ayß -Dawchior^the dovotkto*<th«ffpeoplei< -■•'Onr building fuadfhiw^aJtatedit^^aace 1 of £7 14s 7d?&>#- beafmgiinterest at;s per cent. Tk»iaaniitttt€» ire of : opinion. that an effort-should at oneft be putlbrth to iucreaß«thißjamount«O:that ths build-? in^^purbhaae of af suitable ' mani3e might she; procped^di ,^ithmb©|ord;thißv yqar, expires. „ The.ch'dw continues.to: re»dir,vgood3 seivfce/.: JBlw thanks ,pi] th^j^iigfftgalwn.Jirjß; d.ueiqr»its l effic c ieacyj t«,yshe; pjjgaftisfei aad.f conduct^; vikmntotiftoibmß ih«W' ou V*\W w^atheisijj fyj wee^y- prac^pes,^wlueh, a^aow a hei6^]E.uesj|ayfevening after.. th J e il .pr,ayeri meeting. r ?te .f^wnig, infimber«.Q|i^onumyttee, retjre, .^i^ Xoudon, addjaujt, jnd : it will be nncrfifiary^ for '+jb' 1R meeting to! elect.fouFmemberp/inlheir s,tead. A aunniiar^^ of Ve^eiptsaha e?cpendit(ire for fae' year ' ehdei' 8lst : iDecemeer, 1834, is appended r-^Receipts : Baloif i£i'ti:&£9 1 8s4t)d'; Sabbath 1 collectidns r £61 14* 74; subscriptions, £44 12s!«d j'GhttfChfbxtenjsionfuadi £25 ; to&f.r. ! £Ht*faßi, Wdi' :Bxpenditure : Stipend (oifclosiveof Halcombe), £105? i ehurchiitetensioh, £5^i ;assembiy;expeiises, £1< 4s; choir Sabbattesehool exponsesj £I ; v cleaning: andlighting, . £ft 4s; 9s j i sundrieß, £1 6s;, printing and •advertising, £& 4s 6d ;, iumitajre £4 1 3s 9d ;_ balance, on hand, £6- 1.2s M ; total, £141 5s .1 Id. > ■ lj',' '■*., JLH. STEV^NS,^ •::! •.■,:;>'• „ , r -,.,, P v -Eor the JGjQmmittee^ !. . -F^Ming r^nuars^Bth,i 1885, ; : ....