Uur giving is a most paltry business,"' observed the Rev. J. Parker at the Baptist Assembly at Sydney, recently: "I am glad of an opportunity of sirying this. It is a very bad business. You know in an ordinary church it is easier to get. half-a-crown for ,a picnic than threepence for mission works—you won't mind me telling tho truth, -will you? The same applies to noma missions. It is a- bud business, bad business. When thoy. toll us that all the giving of all tho Christians in the world nmonnt.i to a-penny a- head for all the licuthon, it is beastly bad business, and if wo don't go .hemic ashamed of ourselves., tluu we nro beyond h2D»»'V
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)
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118Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14325, 15 October 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)
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