£60,000 OFFERTORY.
DOK RETURNED TO. MB. AKED'S CONGEEGATION.':.:.
The Her. C. P. Aked's- record offertory. ,-.;.:;; of iiiO.OOO, collected,'.last year'in the short.• space of twenty' niinutes, . following , a ...;: strenuous sermon on . the urgent necessity \_ v :'. j of rebuilding theVTLfth Avenue Baptist, ■',-:! Church, is to lie returned to! the donors.: ; By a unanimous/vote the< church, trus-\ y j.j tees have decided to abaudon the plana ,;'w';, for the erection of n.new large; church oft' .';>-■;■ the site 'of: the existing building, and' to. >-. ■; postpone all further. consideration of the ;. question until January, 1912. ! ._ ,■■-. ■'■A^j^ni Tile rock : on which the scheme for - th« ..■..;•■, new church was ■•wrecked is -the ; growing ,: A;'* "commercialism-' 'of Fifth Avenue. The .-'■ -.; conviction of tho"trustees is that the sitf,..:.::■:■ chosen for the new : church will in a fen . ;.s years be utterly unsuitable for asacred; ■ ;.-v----edifice owing to' the . rapidly advancingy -.■;• v tide of-business .houses and the eonse- , ;;•;,•£ nueiit. removal of residents from, the now, ; :; >• fch'ionable. district. Of the ..£60,000 one./. ; ;y half was contributed by Xlr. Rockefeller,;- ; «...■/); while the .remainder, of the congregation ~,.;:; gave the other half. .; : ■"■'-' ' . ;..■;■ ;v-.-.. "'M
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 996, 10 December 1910, Page 9
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180£60,000 OFFERTORY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 996, 10 December 1910, Page 9
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