SMALL INCREASES
CHURCH OFFERINGS
COMPARISON WITH THE
"TOTE"
Speaking this afternoon at the Wellington Diocesan Synod, the Bishop of Wellington (the Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland) said that the offertories had increased by £357, subscriptions by £399, and contributions to extra parochial objects by £914.
Although there had been these increases, Bishop Holland said he thought on the other hand that it was only right to suggest to the Church members that the small increase in offerings to the Church's work was not at all in proportion to the very extensive increase in the takings of the totalisator and other objects which were benefiting by the better times New Zealand was now experiencing.
The bishop said he had a firm conviction that there could be no release of new spiritual life within-the Church in the diocese unless they reached a position in which finance was no longer either a crushing burden or a veritable obsession; and that could not be until they had reached new standards and new methods of giving. To this end he made some suggestions to the clergy and synodsmen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 8
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184SMALL INCREASES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 8
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