Show I I S Church I fp HIS is a free editorial for all the churches in in rr JL l Salt Lake City It is written to those of us not in the habit of attending church Tomorrow let us put on our good clothes and go to church church- church church and and even though we may not be subscribers to any anys any's s 's sect t or v l Omitting all aU spiritual arguments from consideration just now 7 let letus lefus us go to church tomorrow with the idea of studying the church as a's as an institution and what it means to the individual and to the community in material benefits I 1 r The The church has existed for a good many centuries J C It would not have existed for all aU this time without having some y pla place e. e in the scheme of nature and for b benefit to humanity v. v 4 To those of us who go to church tomorrow and who have not t been in the habit of going we think that the general attendance t u r will be found made up of the industrious thrifty and more prosperous prosperous pros- pros p rous of the community And if this is true why the church has had some effect in making them so While it is true that all aU prosperous people do not go to church yet the church has in its time had its its' effect upon these through these through th their in them the art in in life the n r r parents giving right s start or through general establishment of good order and prosperity and thereby I increasing community opportunity The church has at all aU times stood for good morals honesty and justice And all of these are the devices that go to make industry thrift prosperity and happiness S 'S I Good morals ar are at all aU times good economics economics all all generally accepted moral practices were good economics at some sonic one time or place It is true that all aU of us have not lived up to the standards ol of r morality as advocated by the church church and and we may not now but it has at least restrained us in our besetting sins or the sins to which we we are the most liable and has thereby kept us better than we otherwise would have been All persons who go to church are not right some use the church as a cloak for wrongdoing but these ar are relatively few are soon soon found out and set apart j The great material function of the church directly or indirectly indi- indi I has been to restrain us in the pursuit of harmful pleasures it has restrained our carnal mind as Saint as-Saint Saint Paul terms it it has kept us at work reduced our unprofitable expenditures and thereby promoted industry and thrift The way to make the church of more benefit to the community community community and ourselves as a part of the community is for all of us to become a part of the church some church some church It t is possible for any anyone one of us to be just as much of a hermit 4 in one of these cities as if we were shack dwellers in the woods and this by remaining away from and not becoming a part of the institutions of the community that are for the common good There There are churches in every community for all there thre is some some someone one church for each of us and which we can accept each i according tb his individual belief |