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A priest, Father Jerome Kelley, once asked one of his parishioners, Joseph Bucholz, to serve as financial chairman of his parish. Mr. Bucholz, the manager of a grain elevator, agreed on two conditions: 1. No report would be due for a year; 2. No one would ask any questions during the year. At the end of the year he made his report. He had paid off the church debt of $200,000. He had redecorated the church. He had sent $1,000 to the missions. He had $5,000 in the bank. “How did you do all this?” asked the priest and the shocked congregation. Quietly he answered, “You people bring your grain to my elevator. As you did business with me, I simply withheld ten percent and gave it to the church. YOU NEVER MISSED IT.” This story has been
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