Sentence:  Before a month had passed the congregation at the evening service at St. Asaph's Church was so slender that the <WSD>offertory</WSD>, as Mr. Furlong senior himself calculated, was scarcely sufficient to pay the overhead charge of collecting it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The part of the Eucharist service when offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar and when any collection is taken; also, the money or other things collected. (from 15th c.)