| Show ON RELIGIOUS TOPICS Bishop Dishop Potter If II you ou wish What to 10 understand un what I t mean for In III this matter there Is hi n need cd of or plain speaking go with me nie some Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning morningto to the tha Grand Gran Central depot and see Ie the people who are arc going Into the country to spend the Ihl day da They her ore are on ou their way to a country house which they Ule will hid Ihl full of ot gay got people the major majority majorIty ity II of at whom are communicant of ot tho time church but not one cite of ot whom on ott this timis Sunday will ili cross CIOS the threshold of or a achurch achurch church or think of or turning their helm stops steps t I toward a church door dool They will vIII when wh n Sunday comes cornel lounge In bed Ill or stroll out to the time golf olt links link or play ilay lay bridge In Inthe tIme the library My t brother my amy sister 1 I Iwho who are Ire host hot or hostess for to I such a n 1 group I entreat you OU U to redeem your our home homo for tor or godlier usages Let Jet It be un understood In your our house that the tho Lords day III eia Implies a it Lords house e and that you expect your Quests guests to accompany you yott Oll thither Let rt no plea Pica of ot weariness or III superciliousness or indifference ex excuse ruse cuse those whom your root roof rO lt shelters from which go 10 a 0 great way a above ahoe their mere mele tastes and preC preference ces Baptist Commonwealth A t man of or principle no nu matter how bow sorely tried vigorously l protects the honor of ot his home and am the Iho reputation of ot hiM wife It Is 11 ii true that stories of oC marital become property but they are aro told In lit a court ourt ns S the ground round for or a sop III oration In that case call the thi thiman mutt man of ot honor tries to tc keep the facts tiC front from the thA general Why Wh should not men howe have f dot i I tog Ing of ot pride ant and honor hOllor In him their church relationship Tho The reputation ot of the thc church Is In a 1 trust given to the members Time The man mun who wilfully circulates lilies lates facts or stories that lint Injure his hll hI church Is 18 a n traitor to that trust Very Vet Ver many man people forget this they repent repeat Idle gossip thoughtlessly they circulate late lall tales about the Iho pastor or trustees or fellow members without thinking that bitt tho e stories may Inn shatter reputations and create dissensions In 11 this ChIt way harm Is I often orten done timid and good never Mer If Jr things do not lIot go If 0 right It 1 does not help 1011 hel It to 10 tell a third party the time story In one of ot his hili epistles Paul warned warnot the early Christians against the practice of ot airing their troubles In a 11 court of ot law w wert ere h he today todo he ime would doubtless appeal II I to modern Christiana Christians to avoul inflammatory pamphlets and especially to keep kp I their differences out of at the dally daily papers paper |
