Religion: Trinity's Idea

Small, brown and hoary at the head of Wall Street on Manhattan's Broadway stands 237-year-old Trinity Church. Last week its annual report revealed that, like many a great secular corporation in the neighborhood, it had spent last year more than its income. But in the offices of Trinity Corporation on Wall Street no heads were bowed with worry over a deficit of $77,044. Trinity could spend several million dollars a year and still remain the richest church in the U. S., possibly in the world. Its productive real estate holdings in lower...

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