The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-20
APPEAL BY THE BISHOP
AN EASTER OFFERING or 500, 600 FOR
MISSIONS.
The Adults and Children Asked to Put Aside
Local and Parish Work this Lent
and Give TO Missions.
Messenger of Hope.)

Messenger of HOpe)
To the CLERGY of the Diocese Of North
Carolina and Of the Jurisdiction of
ASheville:
My Dear Brethren l wish through
you to speak to all the Sunday school
children Of North Carolina and Of AShe-
Vile. The season of Lent is drawing
near. 1t will have begun before an
other .ssue of the Messenger Of Hope
reaches you. / send out this letter as a
Pastoral to the Children, and ask
that it be read i'll all our Sunday
schools on Quinquagesima Sunday and
also in the congregations assembled for
worship in the church ON THE same day,
that parents and older persons may
know what the children are doing, and
may sympathize and help in the work
l am glad to say to the children that
think there never was a time, when
the church throughout the United States
was more fully aroused to the Importance
Of missionary work than it is at this
moment. have recently visited num-
Der Of the Northern Dioceses. and ev-
erywhere l found the members of the
church talking about this work and try
ing to do what they could for it. THE
death of the Rev. DR. Langford, our
General Secretary, last summer, though
great loss in many ways. seems to
have had this good effect, that it has
made the church realize the greatness of
the work which he was doing. and which
must now be committed to some one
else, as soon as the best man for it can
be found
Now it is proposed that while we are
all feeling this special interest in the
great work, we should do something TO
show our interest. The children will
all remember how very deeply DR..
Langford was interested in the Lenten
work of the Sunday schools in gather
ing what they could for their Easter
offerings for Missions, and now he had
hoped to see the Sunday School Easter
offering throughout the church amount
to one hundred thousand dollars. 1t is
now proposed that as n memorial from
lie Sunday school children to DR.. Lang
FORD, Who always took so deep an inter
est in their work. all the Sunday schools
IN the all the DioceSes and jurisdiction
or the United States should make spe-
clal efforts during this Lent, by labor
and self-denial, TO bring up on Easter
Day, as an offering for the missionary
work OF the church, One Hundred Thou
SAINT Dollars. What grand memorial
II VIII be to the life and services of q
man TO give TO the cause of extending
Chrlsts Kingdom one hundred thou
sand dollars How much better than
any monument of stone which could be
piled up at his grave. We will com
memorate him by doing more faithfully
Gods work to which he gave his life.
NOW, as your Bishop, | ask all. every
child of the church under my pastoral
care, to take part in this effort to offer
to GGd next Easter this money for the
support OF Mis- missionaries who are
preaching His Gospel and building mn
His Kingdom. Every Sunday school
and every child will, / trust. make this
the Lenten work for this year. | ask
the children to put aside for this Lent
their local and parish work, and to de-
vote themselves to tihis work for all the
church. | know that every parish and
every congregation has some work OF it's
own which needs to be done; and 1T is
hard TO deny ourselves what we want
for our own parish. But Lent means
giving up our own will and denying our
selves what we want ourselves, and
doing things for others. hope therefore
that for this holy season all Sunday
schools will let all their offerings 90
for this great cause of the churchs
general missions. Do not keep back
part, but let all go for this noble work.
Let us send uD to the Missions House
next Easter the grand sum Of One Hun
dred Thousand Dollars from all our Sun
day schools in the United States: let
not one school nor Child be without it's
share in this labor for God
Our Sunday schools and our children
are the hope of the church. wish them
all to learn that the cause of the church
is their cause, and that the church needs
their prayers and their work, and ex-
poets them.
Your Bishop and servant in Christ.
JOS. BLOUNT CHESHIRE. JR.
The Bishops House, Raleigh, y. c.