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Show OYSTER, OLD STAND BY OF LADIES AID, GIVEN HONORABLE OUSTER (nterohurch World Movement Will Put Ohurch on Business Basis Where Won't Need to Bey. The little oyster, once such ttn essential es-sential money-maklug factor tn church circles, Is henceforth to be taboo. It will he regarded by the Unites' Aid Society us a thing tn be .shunned. Its help to pay the preacher's salary or to plug the hole lu the church roof or to send n missionary to India or Afrl-M will no longer he needed. The Inter-church Inter-church World -Movement Is to put the Chrlstlun Church on n business man's budget basis. Of course the ojstcr will get an honorable hon-orable discharge from the service, for It did not desert, hut wits the standby of the l-ndles" Aid Society until the women found a better way of flouncing flounc-ing their obligations for promoting church work. That better way Is now being studied In practically all the women's church societies In tins United Htutes, iiccordltig lo ills Lnura J. Wright, superintendent of the woman's wom-an's division of the Stewardship Department De-partment of the Iuterchurch World Movement, 'There will no linger be any need for tho women of our churches to resort to all ntrls of services for raising money for church purpose when they hove learned of the better way which tho Stewardship Itlnn provides," said Miss Wright. "The iicknowledgenient of the principle thai God Is the owner of nil things and that men and women ar- the stowurds .mnltes church financing financ-ing easy. Wherever tho Stewardship I'lun Is put Into operation, oyster slippers, slip-pers, bazanrs, rummage sales and the like In churches become a thing of the past. They are not needod. Wq owe God all that Is given to us and wo must acknowledge tills prlucjplo In order or-der to get the mod M Q( flit TO Ualou." .'!. t . 1 |