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Pray and Pay (NYC Curches are hosting advertising billboards)
Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday, September 12, 2003 | NAOMI SHAEFER

Posted on 09/12/2003 8:46:21 AM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Never mind that business about a camel passing through the eye of a needle, said to be analogous, in its difficulty, to a rich man entering heaven. In ads all over town, Citibank has been telling us to "live richly," and it is now doing so on a huge billboard -- 140 feet long -- above the portico of Grace Church, at Broadway and 10th Street. The avenue bends just where Grace Church stands, making the 1846 building visible for miles downtown, a beautiful neo-gothic jewel nestled among taller structures, a sacred pause before Broadway veers uptown to theatrical fame.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gracechurch; signsoftheapocalypse; stjohnthedivine

1 posted on 09/12/2003 8:46:22 AM PDT by presidio9
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2 posted on 09/12/2003 9:06:11 AM PDT by presidio9 (If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell)
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