Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-11 | Page 4 | A Form of Intolerance

A Form of o-F Intolerance S AN A A N ENG ENGLISH LISH vicar has barred from his churchwomen church women with bare legs and painted lips A AS Amid S mid midwest west church has stricken from its roll roIl of communicants the name of a man who had been beenS S regular in his attendance at Sunday worship worshipS S for thirty five five ty-five years but who whenever he dallied dallied dallied dal dal- lied overmuch with spirituous cheer would wind windS windup windup S U up in the churchyard to sit beside his wife's tombstone and sing hymns in a quavering voice 11 A deacon in a southern church was deprived of S hi his office and barred from church att attendance 5 for three months because he had been discovered discovered S ered playing cards in the back room of a cigar lit store ore S Now if these are sinful things which may be regarded as debatable 5 by those who list listI I t themselves among the minded broad-minded it is a lit litS littIe little lit lit- S tIe tle difficult to reconcile the actions of the church t r in any case At least one objective of churches and missionaries is the salvaging of sinners S Immediately the question arises is the sinner S outside the fol fold more in need of saving than the backslider The church is in need of the 5 strong and the weak are in need of the church S Churches in late years have been growing more tolerant of each other Why should not this tolerance extend into the individual church S. S or cult itself so that it would be more kindly I and helpful to its own me members bers when they theyS S s stray In the cases cited which cases have been in inS S 1 the news of a single week it would seem more S likely that erring members could be brought back into the path of rectitude b by gentle suasion suasionS S rather than by being ordered o out t of his or her house of f worship and ostracized by the faithful 11 i S S S 5 f 5 5 5 5 5 5 Narrow intolerance will scarcely make women put their stockings on or make them throw throwaway away their lip rouge It will not encourage a slipping brother to leave lelve his his' tipple alone nor to abominate abominate nate cards If churches wont won't extend the helping hand to the man or woman on the way down where is their help to come from