Provision for the Sanctuary

Provision for the Sanctuary
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We want to build a “proper chapel” at our seminary. We outgrew the original chapel decades ago, and for services we use an auditorium or a church adjacent to the campus. Now, one of the great cultural strengths of the United States is the generosity of its philanthropists, people who make a lot of money and are prepared to be openhanded with it. The seminary benefits considerably from this; it has enabled us to build a new library. To build a place of worship, members of the seminary community will make their own contributions, but these will resemble the copper coins an impoverished widow put into the temple treasury, which count hugely to God, because of the sacrifice they involve, but are little help to the priests managing the temple’s budget...