"Someone has pointed out," said Canon Wilford in the Christchurch Cathedral on Sunday, while . pleading for funds for. the newly-formed Church of England Active' Service. League, "that, the little word 'alms' is a conception of a Greek word of ten letters, - meaning ' pity,' six syllables having been shortened into one. A word thus contracted must be one which was continually upon the lips of our ancestors. At any rate, in those days almsgiving must have been a characteristic mark of the Christian. It is this same ' pity ' for the poor for which the Church of England Active Service League is looking today." Messrs. A. G. Wallace and Co. will conduct an auction sale of 400 packages of general merchandise on account of whom it may concern, at their salerooms, 15, . Blair-street, on Monday next, at 1 p.m, ,
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 3, 4 July 1922, Page 8
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