A couple of years ago, at one of Dr Parker’s services beyond the Tweed, there were 1400 of the smallest coins of the realm on the plates. l Seme yeans ’ago a Welsh country rector stated that the collection at the last harvest festival at his church —the edifice being .full —amounted to 2s 3d, and that often the offertory from the whole congregation, including a dozen communicants came to no more than threepence. A Congregational minister, about the same time, made the statement that at his chapel in Dorset, on a certain Sunday night, not one penny was put into the offertory-box ■
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12402, 16 January 1901, Page 8
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