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Show To liaise Church Debts. "Some of these fine churches of your city' that are struggling under loads of indebtedness, incurred in periods of extraordinary ex-traordinary fervor and hopefulness," said a Philadolphian visiting New York, 'might be relieved mre quickly, perhaps, per-haps, than they otherwise will if their trustees would learn a lesson from one of our boards. It struggled on for a great number of years, paying interest on a big mortgage, but never succeeding in making any appreciable reduction of the principal. Meanwhile the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, which had once been fashionable, deteriorated steadily, and most of the rich members of the congregation moved away. It hegan to look as if tha interest even could not bo met, when a wide awake woman suggested that the parish go into business for itself and make enough money to pay its own debts. A lodging house cheap, but clean, really clean was opened, and the innovation was startling alike to church members and lodgers. It was well patronized from tho start and proved a paying investment in-vestment Enlargement soon became necessary, and the debt on the church began to disappear, slowly it is true, but steadily, and the prospect of its total erasure seems certain "--New York Tribune. Trib-une. , |