CHURCH COLLECTIONS
DEAN’S SCHEME TO INCREASE TAKINGS. The Rural Dean of Stepney has found a way to increase his church collections. Knowing that stingy people took advantage of the collecting bag to hide the fact that they were putting in coppers, he substituted open plates for the bags. The result has been that the collections have risen by about 20 per cent. “I have no use for people who put a halfpenny in the collection when they can afford more,” the Rural Dean, (the Rev Kenneth Ashcroft) told the Daily Sketch. “'Such people should be slung out of the church just as they would be slung out of any society if they refused to pay their ‘sub.’ “And how about training the wardens who hand the plate to look the congregation up and down with a supercilious air? “I can’t understand those congregations who are so mean, and I think one good way of dealing with them would be to stop the heating apparatus of their churches for a week or two. “Then tell them quite frankly that unless they they paid their share of the expenses for heating, and so on, ’ they could go without these things.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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198CHURCH COLLECTIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 9
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