A POOR-IN-BRITAIN FUND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 12 September 1914, Page 8

A POOR-IN-BRITAIN FUND.

\i TO J'-IO ORtl-ANISKI) VA r TICK •• CllUKt'llKS. ! The t'lirisWuireli Ministers' Associa- . tion has taken Hie initial stops towards 'a Dominion coiitri'bution to a fund for '.the relief of poverty in Britain occasioned by the war." There, wems no doubt tliat the pra.r in lSritain will 1>; great sufferer,-; by the war, vtith the least likelihood of -receiving an, com--1 ponsatiou when the struggle is over and iiidcmuities aiv paid the many -thousands of families living on the margin of sub''sislenee, will have lost their ibreadv inner* and Im-/oii)o dependent on charily. A realisation of this fiu-it is spreading through the colonial parts of the Umpire, and the "P;or-in-11iitiiin'' Turn! is Hip outcome. In Ohrislchuroh 'a, spocia? Sunday. Odiober 4!b, 1,,-is hern scioiiiil iiy nearly all tlie. cVircUy as a iln- fir "<:T> ring's - o he devoted * ■ ibis object. Ot.'.io" parts of Xow Zealand, rppealed to liv the ('Uristclniv'.i Ministers' Association and by I'.ishop Julius (win h:.s cordially 'furthered the Woposal), a'e moving similarly. Tlv! Pov. A. TS. Chappell has been !\([UP=tc.l to organise the ell'ort in UiLi provi.no?. lie has "ocen in ociimlt.'ition with Bishop Avciill. and the outcome is :i suggestion for a ' Poor-iii-Pritain" .Saturdav. a\licii a strict and house-to-house <oll.ei.on -will he nnule for the i, -id. This is for'(-he Ta v an-ii:i (owns; in liie conn try district-; it is proposed t:, jiave a Sunday, prof, raibly 'the dav imirodiatolv following tin .ticwurs-' .Saturday. OctoI or :ird hns been approved by .he Tar.irwlii Ministers' Association as Hie dav for H'he lo.xtl Sattn-ik- collciion. A meeting is colled for 7.30 on Miondav «voniivj fa -AVihile'iey \i:-WI : }-(mm, ito make arranceiiionls. ' 'll.i Ibis meeting (.'.ell town f-1.-i ''ell of wliaC'Vei- denoniiiialion. is ro'iuistcd to send twi "av delecites in 'adWinn to its minsters-, and llie .suburban cliurchrs to send one (lelog.ll o. We gladlv give nnhticitv to (his pronosal, which 3;«s ilieeii improvo,] by the Ir.o-il P-rtriol ; o ■■ fundi ComMttoe." jind trust that 'Mriidav meotinj; will lie worthily enthusiastic in arrang-