News Item:
        The Unity  Center of Peace Church in Chapel Hill, N.C., has installed a bank
            machine in its lobby, say The Associated Press  Most people make an
            electronic  donation and drop the yellow receipt into an offering bowl.  "The
            philosophy behind this is convenience," said church treasurer Phillip Hall.
             Toronto Globe and Mail  Sept. /98

Well,  not to be outdone  St. James  up Ontario way decided to install their own money
machine.

What happened next was totally unexpected  The new bank machine developed the quirk of cranking out  buckets of  receipts.   Debits were  mysteriously  made to  members of the
congregation who could be described as "loaded"  but  backslidden in their pledges.
 
                                           

First Federal Trust company who had installed the bank machine was truly perplexed by the
machine's behavior.  Expert  repairmen were called in.  But the  generous machine
persisted in flipping out the  yellow receipts much to the delight of the  deacon and
church wardens.  Inexplicably,  the bank machine went berserk  five times in one month.

Soon, the Board of Directors of  First Federal Trust met in Toronto.  At this point the
maverick machine had gained the Bank its weight in gold by way of  favorable  worldwide
publicity.  Way more than the debit amounts flipped out.

However,  what to do in future with the machine was the main item on the Board's agenda.

The suggestions:

         1.   Call in an exorcist - the very best.
 
         2.   Buy out  St. James and make  it a real temple of  finance.
 
         3.   Hope the machine would return to normal  on making
               a  BIG  donation to St. James.

 St. James awaits the Board's  decision.