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Infant prayer and a church debt scheme in old Atlantic city
A poem opens with infant piety beside a mother and a vow to God, followed by a documentary tale of a lawyer in an Atlantic city who uses a pew-buying scheme to clear church debt. He and vestrymen covertly push pew purchases, triggering widespread unease yet succeeding in paying off most debt and exposing moral ambiguities.
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