BAD BUSINESS MEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1064, 3 May 1882, Page 2

BAD BUSINESS MEN.

Tiie Rev H. Verb WniTE, one of the clearest headed men in the Wellington Diocese, speaking a few days ago of the General Church Fund Scheme said:— " The sum which churchmen were able or wijling to give lyns much over estimated. In tl)e fjrsj; circular ft was stated that wo might fairly expect 4000 people to contribute Is lQd a week each. Cur' qwn ijistrjct shows, that such au' expectation was too sangujnp Qreytpwii has done better than any place of jtssiae and, pop-, ulation in the diocese, and the recent canvass has resulted in securing promises of support to the amount of a year, but appording tQ tl)o calculation of the first circular, Qreypown anij its immediate neighborhood would haye been pxpepted to contribute £4BO a year." Jt is evident from this that the. promoters of the scheme in their estimato of their probable receipts were wrong to an enormous extent and that from a business point pf yipw tljey displayed ft singular lack of they claim, however, fhaf jn thpir praiseworthy efforts to improve the financial position of tlio Churcl) they were assisted by trained business men, The mistake was that instead of being assisted they should have been controlled in business matters by business men. The form ol government under which the church is constituted places practically an absolute preponderance of power in all matters whether small or large into the hands of the Rishop and cjergy. W® cannot help thinking that it is thp latter ani) not tlje trained business men wj;o are responsjbje for thp GpnpraJ Churcl) fund fjagco.