Show GOSPEL CARRIED BY PARSONS AT FORTY PER Forty Per Meaning Miles An Hour Aut Autos s for Circuit Riders r The The family doctor has told in detail the benefits he has derived from the Automobile by keeping in closer doser touch with his practice the merchant has reported wonderful improvement inthe in inthe inthe the efficiency of his delivery system Mince the motor car came into vogue and countless members of other professions professions professions pro pro- and trades have paid glowing tributes to the efficiency of this method method method meth meth- od of transportation of labor saved and money made Now come representatives representatives of the clergy who tell of a work for good In the Interest of the church accomplished by the automobile auto auto- mobile The old circuit rider so familiar in thrilling stories of fiction and fact has given way to the modern country preacher who drives his own car Whereas the circuit rider formerly spent most of his nights and a greater part of his days in tedious driving from one church to another the up to date rural minister covers twice the territory and accomplishes much greater results without the gruelling hardships which were a part of the life of his predecessor No longer does the average priest or preacher shudder at the thought of an eighteen- eighteen mile drive through the country to the home of a sick parishioner Instead of devoting four or five hours at least to a dreary and too often perilous ride across the count country he climbs into his automobile and half an hour later he hOe heis heis is at the home nome of his friend At a recent church gathering It was stated that the automobile had been one of the churchs church's most paying In Investments investments investments in- in vestments especially in the rural districts ills dis dis- dis It is customary for the clergyman clergyman clergyman clergy clergy- man or priest in charge of the small country church to accept other small churches in nearby territory A single church in a community so small could not support him financially while I. I three or four churches could furnish i him a most comfortable living The advent of the automobile has made it possible to increase that territory on ona ona ona a remarkable scale In one village Milage where the pastor had struggled along to support a family of four on a year a wealthy farmer made him a present of a machine and nd arranged to have placed under his charge three more churches In neighboring villages Each church pays its share of the automobile automobile automobile au au- au- au upkeep and the result is that the pastor now has a salary Income of approximately 1600 1600 a year an automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile for pleasure as well as business business business busi busi- ness and his family is receiving a comfortable living It is certain that the automobile Is no more popular with any class of people than it is with the church churchgoing churchgoing churchgoing going circles Its economy in upkeep and efficiency for country driving in all kinds of weather and over every class of road appear to be the chief factors In making it desirable for that work Denver work Denver Post |