IN the course of his letter to one of our ministers, a correspondent with a large family in an isolated district of Australia, hundreds of miles from the nearest Free Presbyterian place of worship, writes as follows:—”My Dear Friend, I am not boasting, God forbid, but this is about £12 we have been able to send to different funds of the Church this year, and without an effort. I only wish we had started the practice long, long ago, of making a collection in our own home on Sabbath. The boys give willingly and cheerfully, and I think it would be an excellent idea for those isolated like ourselves to adopt a similar practice and help their dear Church. There is quite a lot who do not seem to realise their responsibility. There are still in the Highlands those who think that if one member of the family contributes that should cover all, and when one sees a congregation, however small, only giving £1, or a little over, to the Foreign Mission, they want shaking up.”
May I, as the minister who received the letter from which the foregoing extract has been given, take advantage of this opportunity to suggest that a great deal more could be done also by some of our ministers, office-bearers, members and adherents relative to the increasing of the circulation both of our denominational official organ “The Free Presbyterian Magazine” and the “Young People’s Magazine.” Surely at a time when sound evangelical Protestant magazines are rare, we should all do our utmost to make our excellent magazines as widely known as possible. Their modest price, despite the increase in cost of printing paper, puts them within the reach of the humblest pocket, and the moral and spiritual quality of their contents is invaluable.
—A Free Presbyterian Minister.