A Lay Sermon.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 3, 1 September 1922, Page 401

A Lay Sermon.

Sir Tristram Eve,. K.8.E., preaching on Church Finance at the Brighton Parish Church recently, said he was. not happy as a preacher and would just have a talk with the con^gregation ' ' on .equal terms. ' ' He explained the functions of the Central Fund (corresponding, to our General Diocesan Fund) for which collections were to be made m all the dioceses, and hoped the laity would respond more liberally than they did. last yeaj. He said it was not the business of the Church to .chase the laity and cadge and badger. "for money, but it was; the duty .of .the laity to seek out the needs, of- the Church and to supply them.

He appealed for real systematic almsgiving, not merely 'giving towards the upkeep of their, own churches, which 'was simply paying for what they received, but giving that others, might receive. People, Sir .Tristram 1 said, took enormous trouble to -make everything successful to which they belonged, but 'they did ' not Avorry •i£ the only thing that really mattered — the' praise and .worship ' of-' 1 God and the. doing" of His Will— was successful'or not. V Jle called it, a'* 'low down, dirty swindle '•* - to, .pretend to belong to the greatest . Society Ton earth, and have the credit' of a Christian, and. never give a .• ' bob to the Society at all. •,