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Show The Skyscraper Church In ;m w York they are building a skyscrapper church. 'I he rueUire will tower some 20 or is 30? stories high. H M ill have apartments, offices, stores to rent. The income wilt more than pay its cost and its running expenses. And oh, yes- there'll be a very line church auditorium tucked au.iy in a corner somewhere. They didn't conduct on "endowment fund campaign" to build it. Regular business methods were applied. Bonds were issued, mortgage s secured, just as in the erection of any other office building. Members of the congregation bought bonds, which will pay 5 per cent. That church wiii prosper. Little doubt that. It will never have (o give chicken pie suppers to make up a deficit in the pastor's salary. There'll mver need to be any bake sales or rummage auctions i:i 1 he parish house to meet that church's b II. It doubtless will have a bland, slightly plump secretary, who'll have as neat a set of books as you'd care to see. We're a business nalion. You can't escape it. We even apply business methods to our religion. And if we sometimes some-times measure the success ot a church by the size of its building and the state of its funds well, that's only natural. I ; 1 1 1 isn't it rather strange, when you stop to think that this .f.r),OUU,(;00 church, with its gold bonds and gilt-edged mortgages and lucrative property, was erected in the memory mem-ory of One who gave His whole life to demonstrate that material possessions are of no value whatever? |