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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1890

A METHODIST VIEW.

The average amount contributed by each member to missionary work is in some conferences as low as one cent a year. In some of the more wealthy conferences, such as New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, it reached one dollar a year. The general average for the whole Methodist Church, including the generous rich men and the very poor, the very thoughtless and the very stingy, is between thirty-five and forty cents, or somewhat less than the price of a moderate lunch at a respectable eating-house; and yet at nearly every prayer-meeting prayers are made that the world may be converted to a saving knowledge of the truth as it is set forth in the gospel!—Church Helper.