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4 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. ,