The Newtown bee., 1905-02-03
spending few weeks at Connellsville,
A LEADER IN MISSIONARY ENDEAvOB

\ LEADER IN MISSIONARY ENDEAvOR. Rev J. K. Plumb, rector of St John $ church, is an enthusiastic advocate of work, and as archdeacon is loing great deal to spur the country parishes on to greater endeavor. He S setting the other Protestant clergy )f the town of New Milford good ex ample in his efforts to bring the bless
 ngs of Bible instruction to the chil-
 lren located in the outside districts
 He has organized two Sunday schools in Second Hill and Chestnut Land,
 which have been continued with a good degree of interest. The mission ary church is always the live church.
 It is the worldly spirit of seltishness that kills churches as we'll as individu- al Christian dissatisfied with pres ent attachments and luxurious sur and forgetting the needy ones outside. The above is written by a disinterested party, but by one who the aggressive Sunday school work of the rector of St John s. He is doing work that is going to tell in the material and spiritual advance ment of St Johns 10 and 20 years hence. In the January number of his parish paper, the Chronicle, MT Plumb makes these timely remarks on Mis- sions: Once more the Epiphany season reminds us that the time has come to make our offerings for the missionary work of the church. Our apportionment this year is $235 for general missions, and $1O5 for diocesan missions. These amounts are the same as last year and first of all the rector would express his qualification at the generous response to the appeal last year. Both apportionments were paid in full and we enter upon the task o1 raising the amounts this year with better heart because of the very gen eral willingness to meet this mora obligation of the parish, which last years offering showed. We take this opportunity to state once more what the missionary work of the church is Those who attended the. sessions of the Summer school held in New Milford last July and heard of the work of Oul missionaries all the world over, do not need another word said. We under stand that the school is to be held here again this year and we trust that more of our people will avail themselves O. the opportunity to learn of the mighty work that is being done for Christ an( His church everywhere. We know that all that is needed to arouse en thusiasm for the cause of missions information about them; but the sub ject is so vast and the field so larg that the real difficulty is that peopl have not time to inform themselve
 and so necessarily are not always inter ested. We look for much help in thi' matter from the Summer school. B term "General Missions" is meant tn
 work of the missions of our church al over the world-except in our own Di ocese, Connecticut. The missionar
 work in Connecticut is cared for unde another name i. e., Diocesan Mis sions." Last year we sent out en velopes for general missions to all tn people of the parish. The numbe sent out was 264, and the number tha came back was 145. The amount give
 through them was $232.75, so that was not hard to make it up to $23; The number of envelopes returned wa encouraging and there were some SUI prises over persons who responded an
 those who did not respond. But it one of the discouraging features ( parish work that so many are willin to have no part in it. We do not thin
 that this parish is behind others i
 this respect. On the contrary we be lieve it stands high; but it is yet ia
 from the ideal when 119 make no re sponse at all to the rector's direct ap peal. It is not necessary that the sur given be large. Five cents counts a a response just as much as $5, so it within the power of all to have par1 and as,,we are preparing .atconsiderabl cost of time and labor, the envelope
 for mailing, it is with the prayer an
 the earnest request that each one giv
 to the subject the consideration tha
 is it's due. Last year we did not sen
 out envelopes for Diocesan mission
 but trusted to the offering at tn
 Bishops visitation. The offering tha
 day amounted to about $7O and tn
 balance of the S1O5 had to be made u
 afterwards. We hope it will not occu
 again. This year we have decided |
 send the envelope for Diocesan mi
 slons with that for General mission
 in order that you may make your offe
 ing when most convenient. One othe
 kind of missionary work we have yer
 much at heart also-and that is th
 work in our own parish. Through tn
 interest and generosity of few ind
 viduals we have been able to have tn
 services of Miss Cora L. Roberts. de-
 coness, for two months. We hay
 found the value of her work to be a
 and more than we anticipated and W
 feel sure that now that so many hay
 come to know her and her work all wi be interested to help in keeping ht
 here. The length of her stay and tn
 consequent benefit to the parish wi depend upon the amount contributed
 and-many small offerings are just
 good and great deal better than
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