DUTY Of a churchman.

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 4

DUTY Of a churchman.

FAR TOO LITTLE GIVEN Canberra. “If you have an income of £SOO a year and subscribe, say £- Js a year to your church, and spend on your holiday, it is about time you called in the Holy Ghost to audit your accounts,” said Mr R. T. Wyatt, registrar of the Goulburn Diocese, in an outspoken address before the Church of England Men’s Society. lie declared that most people failed in the matter of adequate support of their church. Money given for the maintenance of the church, for church expenses and for the .stipends of the clergy, was not alms-. It was a payment for benefits received and service rendered. “Almsgiving commences after we have paid our dues, and when in mercy- and pity- we begin to think of the needs of others,” he added. No almsgiving was acceptable to. God until and unless it involved self-sacrifice.