Burning a Mortgage Deed
A New York church congregation, recently made quite a ceremony of the burning of a mortgage deed which they had been enabled to pay off. After the sermon the pastor stepped ' down; from the chancel and took from : within his vest a folded manuscript. "^Ehis,"' said he "is a mortgage. -TJntil now I've never seen one. Hare ypu any idea what the holders of this • bond could do ? : ; They could turn you out of youTi church; but, thank heaven -they can't do it now, for it is paid." He then tore the paper into slips, and . crumbling the pieces into a ball placed it on a tray: ; lighting a small lamp, he ignited the ball, and while the congregation sang the doxology, the mortgage paper of $6000 was burned to ashes. "When* the service ended, the trustees assembled and t held, a second cremation. Upon the -same tray which held the ashes of the mortgage, the note was burned. During the services many of the older members were moved to tears.' They are how in a sealed envelobe, but will 60pn be placed in a silver urn which '' with thelamp, enclosed in a glass oase, ; g,iid bv.iif? £n &£ p<^a«r of tfco church.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 74, 1 December 1885, Page 3
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206Burning a Mortgage Deed Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 74, 1 December 1885, Page 3
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