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perance Society, the Kensington Church Women s School Association, and the South Kensington Rescue and Preventive Work. These, mind, are all in addition to the donations for parochial pur poses, among which may be mentioned the Dis trict Nurse Fund, Home for Girls, Coachmen s and Menservants Club, Men s Sick and Benefit Club, Women s Sick and Benefit Club, the Flower Mission, etc.&quot;

&quot; Your methods of collection are somewhat un usual, are they not?&quot;

With characteristic vigour the Prebendary dis closed his methods, giving the why and the where fore in proof positive. &quot;I do not believe in the advisability of collections taken from pew to pew at every service,&quot; he remarked. &quot;Our collections are only taken at the doors. It seems to me that we turn people away from the Church more and more by the thought that they must give every time they come ; they regard it, in some cases, as a question of money, and not of religion, and the business men who deal with money six days a week do very much dislike having Sunday turned into a fresh money-dealing or money-begging day. I think, therefore, collections should only be taken from pew to pew on exceptional occasions ; those who wish can and do give at the church door and through other channels. I should like very much to mention that for the information of those who think otherwise, and who say so much

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