"We will never be in a position where we can't pay our bills," said Donald Bowersock, the church treasurer.

To the church treasurer, the difference is profound because digital organs, unlike their pipe organ cousins, never require tuning and seldom need service.

It was the happiest time of his life - especially after the Deacon arrived and appointed him as full-time church treasurer.

"The money helps us survive," said Craig Ferguson, former church treasurer.

The church treasurer knew that she had received £90 for her house and surmised that this money had come from her.

His arrest is the latest in a rash of scandals involving church treasurers.

At the time of his death, the man who believed money should be husbanded carefully and well was the church treasurer.

"Everyone in town contributed," said the church treasurer, Anita Cornish.

"He was a fine, fine man," said James Nelson, the church treasurer.

About the church treasurers who don't embezzle from their congregations, who never even dream of it.