CHURCH ATTENDANCE AT PALMERSTON.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4902, 7 December 1876, Page 3

CHURCH ATTENDANCE AT PALMERSTON.

TO THEEDITOROP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMKfb j Slri;—T cannot think by- what conceivableright anji person should’ write, as “ Correspon-; ;dent” to’youir'paper;; , 'ivitli thestateriisrit that; “on Sunday last; 1 the;Rev. F. Sherriff, off Foxton, ■ preached to 1 a* crowded congregation | in the Auglicatx Ghurch. I was pleased to! latterly bfeeri ' absent 'feoiri these 1 services, clearly indicates that when a change,iri'the' ministration takes ' place a good congregation, may - always he expected.”' .. / V';‘ ; Whilst I” should have . been ; exceedingly' vexed had my friend Mr!.Sherriff' found anything but a good I must 1 remind the public .who’ may have! read the foregoing, that notwithstanding' .the presence ,'of !: some four, who having recently deolared'theniselves members of other communions,, ’are' absent; from our usual. services; the,' gathering of, last Sunday‘ was by . no' means;.' ahoye the' average ; for the offertoryj if jt;may.be!taken: as an index, was only 2s.’9d. in'excess of the, sums collected on either of the two preced-j ing and'.it! by very, many . who were present at, the two services,! that - “the' crowded' congregation” of lasfci Sunday )vas not>at all in excess of tliatj of the! preceding Sunday, when, as I church was full.—Lain.!•! ’ I ’ v-'/HENRYißevis, ; ! !.’_ incumbent!of.Palmerston North,. I Palmerston Nqrth,;)Decembp I>s .• 1