| Show Relates Many Manyi i Odd Sidelights Of Camp Life Lile In a sermon nt fit Phillips Congregational Congregational church hurch last evening c the Rev Peter A. A spoke on oil the re religious religious religious re- re lire life of tho American soldier and spoke especially of tho the work being done i for tor the tho men In the various branches o of the tho service b by the tho Youn Young Mens Men's Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- I tian association the tho American governments government's govern govern- ments ment's chosen organ for or religion serIce serVIce service ser ice to Its men I Tho The Rev Rc Mr Simpkin said In part It I li it a revelation to ono one who Is privileged to come conic into contact with the men Protestant or 01 Catholic native native- born or foreign to find how quickly and strongly ly the they react to the tho appeal I to the great common things of or tho the Christian rell religion lon Tho The Y yet men mon urge I Ithe the Catholics to attend the masses and services ser of or their own church an as the they find opportunity and In the broadest dest possible religious lous ministry arc doing t a tremendous work vork for tor or the men In Tn In addition to the tho multi multifarious Carious needs called for or In the amusement the athletics the education the comfort and tho counsel which tho the secretaries respond to to tho the chief task of at ministerIng ministering minister minister- ing to the lie morale and the rell religious lous needs of oC tho the men is the field the obBer observer ob ob- ob- ob Ber server el finds rinds most fascinating The Tho ordinary religionist would be bo shocked at some of oC the Inn language u e ono one hears on the wa way to a religious service Pr Perhaps the commonest fault of or the en enlisted enlisted enlisted en- en listed man is profanity but those who have b been en In lii the trenches say that It ItIs ItIs itis Is there thero that a n reaction sweeps mighty might clean chaps chap into Its embrace Even the thc I services startle a visitor accustomed to the orderly and reverent worship of ot ofa I i ia a church A IA chap hap will ill sit well under the preachers preacher's nose with his Ca fag burning and amI mingled with the tho old hymns like Nearer My I God to Thee or What a Friend will vill be lie a call for tor Its a Long Long Trail or Over O There or orn any n of oC the popular trench and marching songs But when the man on the platform platform platform plat plat- form gets gots busy with a n messa message c. c that Just hits straight out and broad broadly and clearl clearly touches life's lifes vital questions and the things that reach reath out beyond taps your our Yank sits up an and takes notice There Is a fine CIne Intelligence and a aready aready ready realty sympathy with fundamental re religious religious re- re things and the sold soldier lei by and large Is answering In camp the culture and training of ot the tue homes that gave gaye I them and the sane hanc and characteristic religious ideals ideals' that have marked alike Catholicism and P Protestantism In America and singular ular to relate the Jew may be found an intelligent and andI helpful personality In man many of at the tho I meetings The Y r 1 is delivering the goods an and ministering sanel sanely and andI I broadly to the religious life liCe of oC the I Yank In khaki and blue I |
