CHALMERS CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14281, 1 August 1908, Page 14

CHALMERS CHURCH FINANCIAL REPORT.

, Sin,—A short local which appears in your issuo of to-day is calculated to make a misleading impression upon the public. In it an older is represented as havinc spoken regretfully of the "decrease" in the funds. As a matter of fact the treasurer s report shows that there is no decrease in tho general funds (although tho congregation had exerted itself in a special way during the past year to reduce the debt on the manse),' while in the Sustention Fund there is an increasb. A small deorease m the church door contribution is compensated by an incrcaee in the Sustentation Fund. The congregation of Uialmers Church has been repeatedly commended in Presbytery and Synod for ; ts Christian liberality. In proportion to its numbers it is an easy first among all congregations within the bounds. But it must be acknowledged that a congregation of this size could not ha&s raised a sum of practically £300 for working purposes during one year without substantial aid from the ■Highlanders who f attend the Special Gaelic services provided for them--1 am, etc., d. Macxexnax.