The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-17
Stop 1I,ai Interest Account.
From the Conference Herald,


From the Conference Herald.
A national debt may be a national bless
ing, and u church debt may keep the trus.
tees humble, but a debt on the Missionary
Society is another matter An interest
account amounting every day to enough
to support native teacher in India for u
year, is u reproach to tho church which
ought to be wiped out. Besides, that
trumpet blast in the Episcopal address
which solcmnly declares that "We could
double our foreign membership in the
next four years if we had the money to
send the teachers" calls for advance ali
along the line; while the fact that there
are more conscCrted men and women
ready to go than the church provides
means to send, and that in some Of our
foreign fields the hcathen are turning to
Christ faster than we can provide folds
and teachers for them, indicates some
hitch in the arrangements somewhere.
Either God is asking too much Of His
church or il is giving too little of its sub.
stance. The undoubtcd fact is that we
arc eXpending in interest on debt what we
ought TO be putting in tcIfold in the way
of an advance Let the 10Th of July stop
all that. Let every July camp meet
ings League Convention, Sunday school
gathering, as well as each society, lend II
hand and it will DO done. Indeed why
year Missionary Day with IL free,will Of
fcring as an auxiliary to Debt Paying Day,
SO that without fail when the Genera.
Committee meets it will find n clean bal
ancc? We of the Second District have
II great field to work and many difficult
ties.
The writer can understand the latter
pretty we'll, rs he has spent the greater
part of his ministerial life within tho ter
ritory OF the district named and all of it
~ the pnStorae, so he can appreciate the
difficulties and anticipate the objections
some other interest, local in its character,
c!amo:s 10 be heard on that day; it is
midsummer, and our people are away;
our particular society did its part in tho
annual collection; let the others come up
TO our mark. The country charges will be
tempted to think; our district includes
two of the largest cities on the continent,
they will take caro- it. The pastor in the
city will say that his people are scattered
and gone, and many II man will think
that it will make no ditfcrenee if ho does
fail to take the collection, he will not be
mssra' mis- cd Brothers, suffer Nsord in the
II your people are scattere1thev arc not
beyond reach; have pos'a Enrd appeal
printed and posted to each IN hber. mailed
incdiaicly it viii he he 1rw'a Nh tine in m to
secure his response by the Nh, and you
can report it TO the congregation when
you take your collection. Your bill for
printing and postage can be paid out Of
the sum colltctcd, if you have no other
way of providing for it. Every presiding
elder to his preachers and every preacher
to his people, will secure II response which
will relieve the situation. Let the whole
territory of the second district, from the
Canada line to Cape Charles, be heard
from at the Mission Rooms by tho 2Sth.
Hurry in your returns, but give all tho
people chance to be heard. Let your
waichword be stop that interest ac-
count Your brother,
MERRITT HULbl'ED