Waiapu Church Gazette Tuesday, April 1st, 1919. Easter Offerings.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 22, 1 April 1919, Page 176

Waiapu Church Gazette Tuesday, April Ist, 1919. Easter Offerings.

Once more we call the attention of our reader? to the time-honoured custom of the Church of making special offerings on Easter Day. There are a great many Church people who do not know of it and many more who neglect to observe it. The cost of living, as everyone knows, has advanced so much during the war that a stipend of £300 per annum is equal to a stipend of about £190 m 1914, and other stipends are m proportion. The rate of wages m all industries has gone up, some are double what they were before, but m most cases the stipends of the clergy remain at pre-war rates, and even those which have been raised are not raised m proportion to the cost of living. An opportunity is given on Easter Day .Cor the laity to make up to some exant this, deficiency by direct giving. At Easter time a great many people

•m away for holidays and so are absont from their own parish churches, oi Hers are perhaps specially prevented from attendance at Church on Easter Day. We suggest that holidaymakers and those who are unavoidably absent from Church either (1) send their Easter offering, or (2) put it m an envelope, mark it "Easter offering, "and give it at the next service they attend.