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Updated: May 13, 2025
This brought an indignant protest from Deacon Goodsole, who is a strong advocate of the free-pew system. "Never," said he, "with my consent. Any pew-rent is bad enough. Trafficking in the Gospel is abominable at best. It shuts out the poor. Worse than that, it shuts out the godless, the irreligious, the profane the very men we want to catch. The pew-rents are too high now. We must not raise them."
And the annual meeting is over. But this year our annual meeting was a very different affair. The Sabbath preceding, the parson preached a sermon on the text: "The poor have the Gospel preached to them." In this sermon he advocated a free-pew system.
Then he startled us all by making the following proposition: "The chief objection," said he, "to the free-pew system is the question, 'Where shall the money come from? From God, I answer. I believe if we feed his poor, he will feed us. I, for one, am willing to trust Him, at least for one year."
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