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Show What the Church Carpet Cost. The Chicago Advance gives the following fol-lowing estimate of the direct and collateral col-lateral cost of a church carpet. The price was $S00, but as the women of the church raised the money by giving giv-ing entertainments, the pastor's estimate esti-mate was that when all the items of rest were figured in the carpet had cost fully $4,000. He reached this astonishing astonish-ing tonal by estimating the work, worry, nervous strain, bodily weariness weari-ness and heartaches of 100 women, the heroic efforts of men, women and children to eat the things which were to be eaten and hear, see or buy things which had een provided to extract monev from , them: the colds, fevers and other aliments contracted while i attending the entertainments and the consequent doctors' bills; the money spent in other churches, for if they come to your entertainment you must go to theirs, and. wor&t and most costly cost-ly of all, the demoralization of the church and the curtailment of the legitimate le-gitimate giving which follow in the traSn of such methods of raising money. But they got their carpet. |