Its elders were shrewd men.

With each move of their church they took careful thought in the rebuilding.

In the manufacturing district it was built with sixteen windows on each side and was converted at a huge profit into a bicycle factory.

On the residential street it was made long and deep and was sold to a moving-picture company without the alteration of so much as a pew.

As a last step a syndicate, formed among the members of the congregation themselves, bought ground on Plutoria Avenue, and sublet it to themselves as a site for the church, at a nominal interest of five per cent per annum, payable nominally every three months and secured by a nominal mortgage.
As the two churches moved, their congregations, or at least all that was best of them--such members as were sharing in the rising fortunes of the City--moved also, and now for some six or seven years the two churches and the two congregations had confronted one another among the elm trees of the Avenue opposite to the university.
But at this point the fortunes of the churches had diverged.