CHURCH COLLECIIONS.
The Rev Mr Byng was very severe last night on those who neglect or refuse to contribute according to their means to the support of the Onuroh. He said there were some who were extremely careful not to put a fourpenny instead of a threepenny-piece into the plate, while others offered to the Lord mutilated or defaced coins that would he '' shoved away at the grocer's counter and refused at the Bank." They did not mind giving that which was of no value to themselves, but were not prepared to make the least self-sacrifice on account of the Church. If people contributed according to their means there would be no necessity to resort to tea-meotings and such like expedients to raise funds for the work of God. No one ever heard of a tea meeting being got up for such a purpose as say the repairing of the Caledonian grand stand. No; if an appeal were made for such an object one man would put his name down for £lO, another for a couple of guineas, a third for half a sovereign and so on. But whon it came to a collection for the church, instead of pounds, sixpences and threepences—many of them so knocked about as to be worthless—were handed in. Such illiberality was not creditable ; it indicated an unwillingness to make a pelf-sacrifice such as God demanded—Dunedin " Star."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2217, 4 April 1881, Page 3
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232CHURCH COLLECIIONS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2217, 4 April 1881, Page 3
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