| Help For Hastings - 1909 |
Letter to the Editor, N.Z. Baptist Magazine
DEAR SIR,-Last month you very kindly referred to the progress of events in connection with our new cause in Hastings. May I add to your reference a few further facts, and bespeak the practical sympathy of your readers? The site which has been secured is in the centre of the town, and of admirable proportions for our purpose. It has cost £250. The meeting-house which we propose to erect is to be a simple structure, consisting of a hall capable of seating about 140, and a vestry. It is estimated that the cost of these will be about £270. Our total outlay, therefore, is only just to exceed £500. Compared with building schemes and Church debts in some places, this is a small amount, but to our handful of Hastings Baptists it is a comparatively heavy burden, and they must have some outside help, unless their infant cause is going to be handicapped by a debt. An Auckland friend has sent us £25, and other friends are contributing smaller sums. Locally, both in Hastings and Napier, our supporters are doing what they can. The enthusiasm for Hastings which was displayed at the recent Conference satisfies us that in this forward movement the whole of the Baptists of the Dominion are at our back. What we want just now is that all who are able shall translate their sentiment into cash gifts. Mr. William Turner, Wellington House, Hastings, or myself, will be happy to receive such gifts, whether large or small. In concluding, let me say that last Sunday marked another stage in the evolution of the Hastings cause; for we then had, at the close of the usual service, an enrolment of members. Let me also say that with high hopes we are anticipating the commencement of Mr. Hughes' work on the first Sunday of February next.-Thanking you in anticipation of insertion, I am, yours sincerely, J. K. ARCHER.
|
Download (
Subscribe to this comment's feed
Show/hide comments
Show/hide comment form