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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 8

Midway Church ■ in Anderson County, South Carolina, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. Its last few years have been hard ones, for its parishioners* farmers, had no money to give towards its support. To overcome this difficulty the pastor suggested to his congregation that each one should set aside an acre on his farm for the support of the church and call it God’s Acre. On this acre they might grow what they liked; fruit, vegetables, or cotton, and the yield would be scheme ay Church has pulled through hard times. Now that President Roosevelt has appealed to the farmers to grow less in order to help to raise prices,, it has been decided that “ God’s Acre ” shall become God’s Half-acre, this year, not because they think that if they can all become more prosperous with the general improvement they will be able to do more for their church in other ways. The church, too, will gain by the higher prices that its produce will bring. taken church and sold. By this