twenty Five-Years of Church Work.

Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1892, Page 2

twenty Five-Years of Church Work.

Some interesting figures were quoted (says the Church News)"theother day by ihe : Lord' "Mayor of London at a banquet which' ho and* the Lady Mayoress gave td- the archbishops and bishops~ of England and, the leading representatives - of the ' Noncon^rmists, ifm the Mansion Bouse. In proposing the health pf the Episcopal Bench his Lordship expressed his pleasure at the long, close,' and continuous association be. tween the Church and the Corporation of London, and he ventured to predict that it would ever continue. Ue felt that at no period in the history of the country had the church better provided fbr the; spiritual wants of the nation than at the piesent time, and in support of this he remarked that during the past quarter of a century' the church had' spent in a new building and restora-: tions £35,000,000 ; in home missions, £7,500,000; in foreign | missions, £10,0n0;000 ; in elementary education, £21,000,000 ; and in charity, £6,000,000. these figures can scarcely be appreciated at a glanos ; they demand some little thought before their significance can be reached. Careful readers of them will perceive the immensity of the work which the church has done and is doing in the old country. *