Show IS THIS THE TROUBLE WITH YOUR CHURCH In the March 1 Womans Woman's Home Companion Compan ion ion Bruce Barton writes an article en en- en tiled Why h Fifty Women Go to Church Last month he published an article en entitled entitled en- en titled Why Fifty Fitt- Women Do Not Go to Church He Ic has Interviewed several hundred representative women living In widely different nt localities and asked them therm for fot a a. frank Crank expression of opinion A woman oman as follows what she thinks is the real trouble with tho the church I 1 li suppose tho tue real ical trouble with our church Is la that It Is ls struggling to adapt Itself to a chan changed ed community life lite For all the years cars of Its earlier existence It was the sole means of social Intercourse a w o oj 01 uv ut 11 q inq c a. i 21 l jmj atil iJU W ou Oti X pung 11 oj 01 awu aldO d jo tUO ot- ot em J lU a lupos cuo lUO Aln m meach each cacti other and to visit together after the morning service Now there them are BO so many other activities that bring them to together ethor transportation Is BO so Improved and communication com cent t bo so s isy that this great at motive for church attendance has lost Its power Moreover tho the sermon sennon Is 18 no longer the solo 1010 means mean of Intellectual enlightenment Every pr present ent da day sermon hermon must put It Itself It- It self seH into competition with a score of ot magazine mag mag- azine articles that have ve brought Into the community during durin the tho week with the tIme dall dally daily papers paper and th time the great resources resource o otho of oC tho the public libraries It Is no wonder that church chuich attendance Juts bus dropped oft olT hut but I my belief Is that the need of the tho community for Cor the time church Is la so eo vital that it will nih never ne pass Ii apt of our out life It must readjust Ils itself lr I s stand and loyal Joal to It because I hope to help It work ork out that readjust readjust- ment |