*294.* _Burned, Revert, Vested._—The fact that a church on lands donated to the parish, on condition of sustaining the church, burned down, the title did not revert to the grantor’s heirs.(524) Also land granted a bishop for church uses, vested immediately in him and was not forfeited because it was not used for church purposes.(525) *295.* _Abandoned, Revert._—Land granted to trustees and their successors forever in trust to erect a Methodist church, according to its rules and discipline, which was used for such church for a long time and then abandoned and sold to parties who converted it into a blacksmith shop, did not thereupon revert in the absence of a provision to that effect.(526) *296.* _Uses and Trusts._—The chapter of the Wisconsin statutes on religious societies, although not included in the same title as the chapter abolishing all uses and trusts excepting as therein created, was not intended to prohibit the trusts expressly authorized by the former.(527) *297.* _Trust Funds, Account._—Where a member of the church received funds to invest in his own name for the benefit of the church, he will be obliged in a court of equity to give full account for the money and its profits.(528) *298.* _Fund, Diverted, Split._—A fund created for a particular purpose, as the education of children in the faith and doctrines of a denomination at the time the fund is created, can not be diverted from its original object.(529) Neither can such a fund be split up when a congregation is divided, but must be retained as created.(530) *299.* _Church, Personalty._—A church removed from its foundation and put on rollers was severed from the realty and became personal property.(531) *300.* _Lease, Purposes._—A religious literary society and scientific corporation has power to lease part of a building owned by it for theatrical and operatic purposes.(532) *301.* _Salary, Lien, Equity._—The church building and the land on which it stands have been held subject to the payment of a debt due for the salary of a pastor of the congregation owning such property.(533) A contractor is entitled to a lien on the church property for work done on the building.(534) A person who became liable for the debts of the congregation incurred in the purchase of church property, obtained relief in equity by subjecting the church property to a sale.(535) *302.* _Bankruptcy, Creditors._—There is no provision of law for a church corporation to make an assignment in bankruptcy. However, the church corporation may be sued and a receiver appointed to take possession of the property and sequester the assets.(536) But where assignments in bankruptcy and a sale and conveyance of church property are lawful, the church property may be assigned for the benefit of the creditors.(537)