Always Begging for money.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XII, Issue 2, 1 August 1921, Page 302

Always Begging for money.

Alluding to this popular complaint against the Church, an article m the Rockhampton " Gazette" says: — "Now, my dear man of the world, you can't have it both ways. You see what "a vast amount of things the Church ought to do; what have you done to enable it to do them? You complain of time spent m organisation: if the Church were not or- y ganised it could do even less. You complain that work is not done,, and m the same breath you complain of being asked for the money necessary to jio it. For an epidemic a doctor asks for hospitals, drugs, instruments, and gets them; or if he does not, does the best he can, and no man can do more. A bishop asks for churches, schools, books, altars, clergy stipends and training funds, doesn't get them, and is blamed for being inefficient. You cannot have it both .ways. You can say that the Church's work is not worth doing, and call.it a drag on the community. Or you can supply the Church 'with what it asks ] and blame it for not doing the work. But you can't m the same breath refuse 'supplies 'and denounce the Church for work undone. " '