Federal Guidance to Assist States in Improving State-Level Pandemic Influenza Operating Plans Presented to the American States

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...made for it, culpably, and also singularly backward in fulfilling its obligations towards God in this respect. Let any one look through the columns of the Parochial Statistics to which we have referred, and form his own independent judgment thereon. St. Peter's Parish is one which has always been honourably distinguished by the sums raised in it, both for local and general purposes; the amount last year exceeding by 1,000 that collected in any other Parish: but even that amount, if the circumstances of the Parish be considered, does not exhibit any great Christian liberality. Taking the whole at 3,000' (which includes pew rents), and the number of the congregation at 800, the contribution from each person is less than 4 for the year, or about Is. 6d. a week; and this from one of the wealthiest congregations in the Diocese. Or, examining the result in another way, if we subtract from the total of the offertory collections ( 1,913), the sum of 1,040 collected for the General Fund, ) of which it is understood almost the whole was given by a single individual, ) the remainder ( 873) will give rather more than 1 for each person during the year, or rather more than 4d. a week. This, we confess, does not appear to us to entitle the Church in St. Peter's, regarding it as a whole, to commendation for the largeness of its offerings unto the Lord. These observations may seem to some uncalled for; but we think, that of all dangers to an individual, or to a Church, that of spiritual self-deception is the greatest. The plain duty of every Christian man is to honour the Lord with his substance; i.e., not by dropping a halfcrown into the plate on Sundays, or by putting down his name for 1, or...