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Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 8

At the annual meeting of Chalmers Church (Timanj) it was shown that thf collections throughout the past year had averaged £l7 14s per Sunday, and one of the speakers said ho supposed that this was a record for New Zealand, so far, at all events, as Presbyterian churches were concerned. During the four years of the congregation’s existence they have paid for their properties £5,782, while for the past fifteen months the revenue from all sources totalled £1,770. The liev. Isaac Jolly, of Palmerston North, recently inveighed against the awful manner in which golfists desecrated the Sabbath, whereupon a golfer hits back trenchantly at the reverend gentleman : —“ The narrow, parochial, puritanical, Pharisaical section of the community is in the last ditch fighting , selfishly ‘ for its lost privilege of making everybody sanctimoniously unhappy on one day in seven; but a newer and mord salutary dispensation is arising, and we find, eves in the Old County—where hidebound conservative clericalism has its stronghold—that a new spirit is asserting itself, and that some of pbe clergy', realising.that; large amount of wickedness is the product of the enforced idleness of a gloomy and depressing ‘ day of rest,’ are entering into the innocent pastimes of their parishioners, so that the latter may ou one day of the week get some slight fo«*, taste of the ‘happiness to come. -