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...Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) has long been a favorite text at businessmen's luncheons. In need of money for repairs, the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton, Ohio thought up a more specific use for the parable. One way to collect the repair money, suggested Layman Eugene Benroth, might be by re-enacting the parable. One day last February, after borrowing 200 ten-dollar "talents," the Rev. E. N. Bigelow distributed them among his congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Parable in Bluffton | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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