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Show OYSTER, OLD STAND BY OF LADIES AID, GIVEN HONORABLE OUSTER Interchurch World Movement Will Put Church on Business Basis Where Won't Need to Beg. The little oysler, once such an es seniial money-making factor In church circles, is henceforth to be taboo. It will be regarded by the Ladles' Aid Society as a thin;; to he shunned. 1 1 h help to pay the preacher's salary or to plug the hole in the church roof or to send a missionary to India or Africa-will Africa-will no longer he needed. The Inter-church Inter-church World Movement Is to put the Christian Church on a business ninn' budget basis. Of course the oyster will get an honorable hon-orable discharge from the service, for it did not desert, but was the standby of the Ladies' Aid Society until the uomen found a better way of financing financ-ing their obligations for promoting church work. That better way is now-being now-being studied In practically all the women's church societies in the United States, according to Miss Laura J. Wright, superintendent of the worn an's division of the Stewardship De-apartment De-apartment of the Interchurch World Movement. "There will no longer be any need for 'be women of our churches to resort to all sorts of services for raising money for church purposes when they have learned of the better way which Ihe Stewardship Flan provides," said Miss Wright. "The acknowledgement of the principle that God is the owner of all things and that men and women are the stewards makes church financing financ-ing easy. Whereer the Stewardship Plan is put Into operation, oyster suppers, sup-pers, bazaars, rummage sales and the like in churches become a thing of the past. They are noi needed. We owe God all that is gl on to us and we must acknowledge this principle in order or-der to get the most out of our religion." |