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Show Debtors "Forgiven" in!;n Spirit of Lord's Prayer C Suiting their fiction to the wordi of the Lord's Prayer, "and forgive us our debts ns we forgive our debtors" 3 the contrresiitlon of St Paul's Evan- pellcal Lutbernn church of Toledo, Ohio, has "forgiven" more than J23,- ' 1 000 In unpaid pledges of Its com muni. "'! cnnls. The church has 2,400 active mem- :: bers, and Is described as the largest Protestant church in Toledo, and '.t largest In the American Luther body. Its action Is prompted byJie ' - spirit of the day, explains the pastor :': Kev. S. C. Mirhelfelder. "We be ;-' lleve," he says, "that many of our people hnvlng made pledges In good fnlth, but unable to pay them, are : ' burdened by the debt they owe the '' church. We believe that the church : which would teach others to pray the Lord's Prayer should be the first to ; 1 'forgive.' " The resolution passed by the ves- try reads : . t "In appreciation of God's blessing ;-' In preserving our church in the peril- :' ous times of depression, and In keep-Ing keep-Ing with the President's recovery plan, we hereby cancel all obllga- '-tlons '-tlons of our church due before Jan-uary Jan-uary 1, 1003." Literary Digest te |