Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — FOR USE IN CHURCHES. [ARTICLE]

FOR USE IN CHURCHES.

Collection Bass and Boxes, an# Plates of Wood and of Metal. In some churches, years ago, the collection was token in small, close-ineshotl nets with short handles. The latest thing' made for this use, the collection hag, is a modification of the old-fashioned net. It is a cone-shaped plush bag seven inches in diameter and seven inches deep. It is secured to a hoop to which is attached a handle two feet Qr three feet long, as may ho desired. The collection hag sells for $4. It has been in use übout ono year. Collection boxes were at one time used in many churches. The old style is a shallow open box about seven inches long by five wide. It is lined with velvet and has a handle attached. Boxes of this stylo are still used, but collection boxes are now generally mode circular in form. They are seven and a half inches iu diameter and two and a half inches in depth. A plush mat is laid on tho bottom, and tho box is provided with a handle two or three feet long. Hugh a box of oak sells for $3.50. Not many boxes are sold nowadays. Collection- plates have fora long timo been in general use. One of the older styles of plates was of brass, nickel plated. Plates of this kind were sold at from #5 to $7 each. At the present timo collection plates are mado of wood and of various kinds of metals. The wooden plates are the more populitr, and they am commonly used in city and country. Usually they arc of oak or walnut ; oak is now the wood most favored. A plain idate of quartered oak may bo bought for 13. It is Hi inches in diameter. Its fiat rim is If inches wide and the plate is If inches deep. A plush inut is luid-in the centre. A plate of the same size having a text carved upon the rim costa $5. Various texts are used. "(Jod lovoth a cheerful giver” is the most often selected. A receiving basin of wood, into which the collection plates may lie emptied, is 15 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep, and the rim is 2i inch Bitwide. Carved with an appropriate text and with a plush mat, a basin costs sl2. Collection plates of metal are usually mado of brass or bronzo. Brass platen range iu prioo from $5 upward. They are eleven inches in diameter, one a ink three-quarter inches in the rim, and one and three-quarter inches deep. They arc inscribed with texts and are stamped or embossed in a variety of designs. Thometal plates are used either with or without a mat. Bronze plates oust $25 ami upward. Metal receiving basins of brass or bronze cost from $25 upward. Moreexpensive metal plates are made to order. Home are of solid silver. Tho cost of u silver plate depends on Its weight and the work upon it; SSO would be about tho lowest prico,—[New York Hun.