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MINISTERI/
The following paragraphs
mittee's leaflet entitled "F
interesting and should sti
activity and liberality in i
collection:
We have on our Roll <
minictprc 1A"* ttrii-lrvttfr OMrl c
- ww.u, AitO n mvuo anu li
liomes are ninety-four little
fourteen years of age.
When the Church ordai
ministry she says to him,
spiritual things, and we wi
things."
The forty-nine ministers
age of sixty-seven years.
The oldest beneficiary is
and has labored sixty ye.
Church. The youngest in
four years of age and is now
Of the forty-nine minist
are over fifty years of age,
^ears, twenty-eight are ov
are over eighty years.
The forty-nine ministers.l
Church 1,713 years, an a\
thirty-five years.
Of this number forty-tw
more than twenty years, th
years, nineteen more than f
fifty years, while one fait
active warfare for sixty yeal
Of the 143 widows on o
about sixty-two years, ane
the service of our Church z
3'ears.
In these homes of refine
than ninety-four little fatli
age of fourteen years. Of
ten years old.
None of those whom we
$400 last year. The averag
is $145 per annum, or forty
Do you realize that thei
ministers who are broken
Christ and our Church, re
who are inadequately supp
of wholly unprovided for n
time, while thousands of d
Presbyterians to objects ve
kingdom of God, or to <
unappreciated and accompl
has said, "This is a perveri
It is the Church neglecting
the gospel she preaches."
The little assistance v
through her Committee of
more of cheer and sunshine.
than you can imagine. T
ficiaries is unbounded. The
remembering at the throne
made this help possible."
prayers?
During the past year
THE PRESBYTERI/
y t
LL RELIEF.
gathered from our Cornacts
for Fuel," are most
r the Church to special
connection with the July
>f Beneficiaries forty-nine
fteen orphans, and in these
: fatherless children under
ins a man to the gospel
"You minister to us in
11 care for you in material
have reached the average
o eighty-nine
years of age
irs in the service of our
inister enrolled is thirtyr
an invalid.
:rs on this roll forty-three
thirty-eight are over sixty
er seventy years and five
have served Christ and our
rerage term of service of
0 have served the Church
irty-three more th^n thirty
orty years, nine more than
hful veteran has been in
1"S.
ur roll the average age is
1 their husbands spent in
m average of twenty-eight
rment and want are more
lerless children under the
these fifty-six are not yet
assise received more tnan
e assistance to each family
cents a day per family,
e are aged and enfeebled
down in the service of
fined, patient, godly men,
lied with life's necessities,
iow, today, at this present
lollars are being given by
ry remotely related to the
:harities which are often
ish little good? Some one
sion of the Christian idea,
to practice among her own
vhich the Church CMVPS
0 - . ?
Ministerial Relief brings
into these darkened homes
he gratitude of the bene:y
say, "We are constantly
of grace those who have
Have you a place in these
seven ministers and ten
lN of the south.
widows have been callec
Many others, greatly adva
daily growing weaker. Ii
without strength to serve
the comforts, and in mar
life, they wait a little v
Master. What we do for i
the experience
CflU
A delegate to the Mora
is now in session at Her
sists of representatives frc
once in ten years, writes
somewhat depressing comi
back in Moravian Mission
As all the Christian wc
Church is the pioneer of ]
been the first to recogniz
the duty of a church as a c
missionary society in the I
church is a foreign missic
provinces, one out of e^
adults goes as a missionar
one out of every twenty,
highly encouraging. Thei
.uembers of the church a
are in the home province;
Oermany. But there is ar
of the church has been p
work. The church has ex
ica for nearly two hundre
the Moravians in America)
the Moravians in Englanc
Germany not at all; the M
march, if not by leaps an
We often hear of the ex;
nas given to the world b
falls to us to remind the c
work as well as a greater
said the greatest of missioi
first (but not only) must 1
and, mutatis mutandis, the
German's; and as for our
I do not think we shoul
shall have to surrender
many years all ideas of ad
oned.
The reason given for thi
lack of funds. The lack
less money. The Moravi.
last decade than ever bef<
is wrung dry. In Englar
butions are. orooortionatp
Moreover, the mission con
The ex-heathen supply mo
required.
Yet the foremost missic
been compelled to face tf
stated in terms by one of
the church has given itsel
eign mission work to tht
of home missions and wil
of a disaster to the work c
r'i
Jiily
I to their eternal reward.
need in age, are reported as
n the evening time of life,
, without means to secure
ly cases the necessaries of |
/hile the summons of the
these must be done quickly.
OF THE MORAVIAN
RCH. - *
vian General Synod, which
rnhut, Saxony, which conmi
all the world and meets
i to the British Weekly a
nunication, entitled "A Sets,"
in the following strain:
>rld knows, the Moravian
Protestant missions, having
e that the mission work is
hurch. There is no foreign
Moravian church ; the whole
nary society. In the three
yery sixty-eight Moravian
y; in the German province,
The result* is at first sight
re are three times as many
mong the heathen as there
3 of England, America and
lother side. All the energy
ut into the foreign mission
isted in England and Amerd
years. During that time
i have advanced somewhat;
1 a little; the Moravians in
oravians abroad by a steady
id bounds.
ample the Moravian Church
y her foreign missions. It
hurches that there is a first
work. "To the Jew first,"
naries. To the Englishman
be the Englishman's motto;
; American's motto, and the
missions we must retrench,
d give up any field, but we
out-stations, and for very
vance must be quite abands
deplorable condition is the
of money does not mean
ins have given more in the 1
Dre. The German province ^
id and America the contri- I
to their numbers, enormous.
gregations help themselves,
re than a third of the money
>n church in the world has
le fact, which was recently
the Moravian bishops, that
f too exclusively to the for:
neglect and disadvantage . I
:h the result as seen above B
>f foreign missions also.?X. ,