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Michigan Macomb County
The plan hit upon was to induce the owners interested in the welfare of the church, to relinquish their pews to the society for a
single year, as an experiment, to be rented for that period at auction to the highest bidder. The plan was cheerfully adopted, and worked so well the first year that it was concluded to try it another. The next year was still more successful, the current expenses, heretofore raised with much time and labor by subscription, being thus easily provided for in the short space of a single hour. The way was now open for a permanent arrangement of the same kind. A majority of the pews were formally deeded to the society, and the policy of purchasing the rest, as. they could be obtained, inaugurated. From that time success was assured. The growth of the congregation was steady and healthful. The-' interior of the house was soon torn out and rebuilt, the gallery lowered,, the pews re-arranged without the troublesome doors, the walls frescoed with paper, the floor carpeted, and the stoves exchanged for a furnace."'
Early Macomb County
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