Show HIGHER PRIGS PRIC OF RELIGION At least leut the price of Bibles is high higher er erand and Is going to be advanced again That is the apparently authentic state statement statement ment from publishing houses of the east So that it would seem that one oni means of getting and keeping and en enjoying enjo enjoying jo ing religion follows the general trend for higher prices And we are not sure that the religion acquired under the advanced prices Is any better than was the good old brand when there was warrant of truth for the revival song Salvations free for tor you rou and me Im glad salvations free tree freeTime freeTime Time was when the converting c agen agencies agencies cies des pay a penny penn for rent They got the use UEe of a grove and the man who would have charged for it would have been scourged out of the neigh neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood They rolled roiled logs together and formed a platform and from that van vantage vantage vantage tage point their preachers spoke to thousands of listeners winning many man manto to a confession of faith and a promise for better lives The camp meeting would continue for a week and the cost of the entire session session could be cov coy covered covered ered without burden to my any one Those old preachers were not educated ed men either They had spent no years in college and they have more than three books In their library All the commentary they possessed would be the memory of ot what the pre presiding presiding presiding siding elder or the bishop had said at atthe the last conference But they the must have made up In ear earnestness earnestness fleetness In militant policy and practice practice practice tice for tor the equipment they lacked What they had represented a very lit little little littie tle tie money investment What they gave was equally free And yet there is ground for reasonable doubt that the costlier conversions and bigger fixed charges of the modern churches achieve any better results in the plain and simple old process of getting men and women to abandon bad lives and devote themselves to righteousness |