GENERAL BOOTH AND HIS COLLECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 251, 22 October 1891, Page 2

GENERAL BOOTH AND HIS COLLECTIONS.

(To the Editor.)

sir you kindly allow me a little space in which to earnestly protest against the wholesale carrying away of what should be our " tithes " for distaut missions ? I havo no wish to run down the principle of giving to outside good works, only "These things ought ye to have done, and not havo left the other undone." Our collecting itinerant preachers do not come in the guise of poor men and women. On the contrary, the labourer is very evidently worthy of his hire, and in most comfortable circumstances. It is of no use grumbling at this exodus of money without suggesting a remedy. I would therefore ask General Booth to leave behind him a tenth of his collections, dividing the money between kindred institutions to those for which he is pleading, say, the Helping Hand Mission, the Prison Gabo Brigade, etc. As a matter of fact, the rich WesD End of London is well able to help the poor East End for which our coins are requested. Why does he nob beg of them ? I would also like to remind generous givers thab, good as this new idea may be, there aro some equally excellent institutions for relieving the over-crowded population of London by emigration—amongst others, Dr. Barnado'e Home.—l am, etc., A Lovek of Fair Play.