Show f Easter on Rubidoux 4 oe By Dy DR FRANK CRANE This This year YOOt I witnessed 1 about a RI i marvelous Ious a spectacle spec Ape tacie as I have e ever eer seen Been It Tt no the Ea Eater Ea t f mo mn mn- ning n- n the Rubidoux at RIversIde River RIver- ing service on top of ot Mount side Cal It If you OU were to t a ask k five o o oten ten thousand tn to pet Jet tin un at pact half 3 In the morning find and a lot tot lotof lotof of ot noy floy Scouts and policemen to volunteer their services ser ser- vices ices to manage the crowd nil all to be toe resent present at an ordinary church service i lit it t and expect tho e PEo people Ite to climb n a mountain a 1 thousand feet hl h. h and have h them re nd of nd I should call that thai thaia thata a n. miracle The ho sheer ph physical discomfort Is almost ln I We 0 ore are alway things thIng ea for P people Opt to o coi to church W select the right time of cia dav av W have beautiful mu music c to which they may Y listen We Ve hn have glass tn to Jllen please e th thee the eve ot We 0 have Met ft news And Mi U that sort rort rt of ef thin thin-P. Yet our churches are empty empt Here you ha have hato to get tt up un at st nn fin un ungodly odly hour In InthE Inthe inthe the mornine climb a l lood good sized mountain go JO O without your OUr breakfast and yet et the top of themo the the- mo mountain Is If It we held our church services fler in Jn some place hart hanT to tn get Itt to on the ton too of a mountain that people peo pIe had to climb or at the end of n a winding Pas Pas- n sag Jf ag so 80 that It took enormous effort to reach It perhaps more mOte would rome come There Is I something In human h nature nature- that r 1 y ond the call of or adventure that Is q piqued by byth bythe bythe th the effort n to accomplish a n thing Then there are RTe the V crowds 1111 Crowds Cro draw dra crowds crow Man Ian I In ii a gregarious animal anti and the magnetism In a f crowd I. I Is k undeniable hat ha sot Jot Into tte te way a of ot oln to these exercises anthey and an they persist perit In jn p lnA The only Wa way you ou could get cot more pt people ople to the i now would be to tn pass a 11 law i 1 prohibiting them Then everybody would pro go And they go to this point apparently not to uA rf t o ne to eat eLt not to pet get money or Y other I tangible reward but merely rely to get t a thrill This Thill I old Ild humanity of ours 11 we Wf sometimes think Is II f y ve-y y e-y coarse oaro And material yet tt It r responds tran ly ty to the Meal Ideal You never realize It until you vou eee see ee five thousand thousand thou thou- sand nd T people eople up here at of ot day singing Ithe Tn To the Cro Cra Cross of Christ I Glory and repeating the LoH's LoHs Prayer There I Is nothing particularly a attractive or unusual tin un un unusual usual In the service sen It Is about the sElme rort port of thins thing that you will find In tn any huTch church Somehow It ItIs itI I Is III the occasion the environment the unusual nature of ot the event Ment that app il 4 to the people As AR I looked out over ove t the ns assembled multitude at nt this sunrise service I paw aw what were the paine Fame ne dull dun and ordinary faces of the crowd d Yet t there therl was a spark park behind f ch one of these faces races There was ClR something that t to the he appeal of tho the spiritual It Is IR also lo amazing to 10 e e how er e enjoyed i being of some service The Boy Scouts that WeT were ver everywhere lining lInin the road and on duty had been up UJ nil all Hard policemen were standing about on dut duty Everyone Eve of them felt the importance of or serving his feL V o men There l s something about being of use to the tho world that finds a l response In all nIl of us Then the service It wn WAI pot P and cath flath ath- ath olic It wa was not any new tangled t religion but an an outgrowth of the tho relf lons the world has hes enjoyed enjo So when the new nosy religion comes in which we shall shan shanAn nil all share It will not he yours ourA or nuns mine but a development devel detel- of the religion of u us nil An It Jt wilt will be a 1 growth the natural flower from a vine which has has' long been eon planted Copyright 1926 1026 b by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |