The TREASURER, in presenting to the Donors and Subscribers the BALANCE
SHEET for the past year, begs to call attention to the decrease in the
number of both Donors and Subscribers. Although it was not to be
anticipated that the former would be kept up to the same extent as in the
first year of the establishment of the Society, when a large outlay was
to be met, it was not unreasonable to expect, that both the number of the
Subscribers, and the aggregate amount of their subscriptions, would have
considerably increased as the operations of the Society, and the great
benefits resulting therefrom, were more generally known. It is earnestly
hoped that when the foregoing Report has been circulated through the
parish, and the large amount of good that has been effected through the
agency of the Society has been thereby brought under the notice of the
inhabitants, its claims on public liberality will be better appreciated;
and that no one who is blessed with the means will hesitate to contribute
of his abundance, so as to enable the Society to carry out all those
beneficial measures intended for the amelioration of the temporal and
spiritual condition of his poorer and less favoured brethren, which were
proposed at the formation of the Society, but from which it has been
hitherto most reluctantly withheld by want of the requisite funds.
The Treasurer also begs to express his regret at the small amount
collected in the ALMS BOXES at the Parish Church, in comparison with the
number who attend the several services; it is gratifying, however, to
observe that in one or two instances a larger amount has been deposited
as a THANK OFFERING—examples which, it is hoped, may be frequently
followed by those who have experienced any special blessings.
The Treasurer wishes it to be distinctly understood that he would
thankfully receive DONATIONS or SUBSCRIPTIONS of however small an amount,
as it is the wish of the Society to afford an opportunity to ALL CLASSES
to assist, as far as their circumstances will permit, and each according
to his power, in the furtherance of the great work of practical Christian
charity.
_The Treasurer in Account with the Kensington District Visiting Society_.