SPLITING THE OFFERING.
In Northern Madagascar the churches have an amusing way of taking up the colection. Often a hat is used in some cases old enough to. lot ae collection drip through on to the worshippers’ laps. The sexes sit on opposite sides of the building, and when a husband has no equivalent for a halfpenny—the standard contribution —he takes change for his ten centimes piece from the hat, and hands this change to the steward, who gravely takes it across the aisle to the contributor's wife, for her to drop in the hat.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 2
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95SPLITING THE OFFERING. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 2
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