Them and Us - a parable for our times

During Christian Aid week a friend who is also a Canon of the church, who spent her working life among street children and AIDS orphans in Kenya and was awarded the MBE for it, went freelance with a collecting tin to two village venues where people foregather on a Saturday - the golf club, where the great and the good hang out, and the workmen's club, where they tend not to lest they be seen as class traitors. Guess where every single half-pint present made a contribution, and where not a single Pimms No 1 could find even a brass halfpenny that they could spare.