Show PRELATES RELA TES DISCUSS SALE OF CHURCHES LONDON March 3 The The Church 01 of England today is faced with the sity elty of deciding the long debated QUestion ques QUes- tion of whether its seven forty historic edifices in the financial district of London London Lon Lon- don shall be sold for or pounds sterling of which the church stands In great need or whether they shall be preserved as RI priceless relics of ot antiquity at a great financial sacrifice Nineteen of the he edifices are In sections of the city where there is virtually no attendance on Sunday These alone alono V would b bring nearly O O pounds mit Thug s utilitarianism i rs and sentiment rt rn t are tugging at the hearts of high church I leaders who are reluctant to see these ancient examples of church architecture razed but who are hard put to keep them going to say nothing of the difficulties of erecting and manning churches in thickly populated districts There is a a strong sentiment In the church in favor of disposing of these old seldom used churches at great financial profit In or order order or- or der adequately to develop church needs need in more fertile fields l |