Show men and women sit together JEAN NTEN and women now sit together on sunday in a church in a ald vestern town in case you are not sufficiently thrilled or shocked by that announcement please be informed that this Is a revolutionary proceeding for the I 1 little village it Is the first time in forty years that such a thing has been countenanced there modern youth they say Is responsible for the change ahe modern youth of the church made the church go modern and now the whole town Is basking in the reflected glory or disgrace of having gone modern 1 for forty years the men have been compelled to sit on one side of the church and the women on the other and now they may sit together at least so says the dispatch which carried the news around the world and we must believe news dispatches think of the responsibility which Is now on the heads of the youthful con that led and won the battle to bring modernism to that town if anything should go wrong if the results of this iconoclastic change would not be all that Is hoped for think of the stigma on youth modern youth I 1 that Is the trouble with extremes those who advocate them assume such a terrific responsibility if anything goes wrong and in all radical changes involving profound cosmic principles there Is always the chance of something going wrong e have our fingers crossed for the church in that little town let us hope that those courageous spirits who waged the noble battle years ahead of their time to permit men to sit next to women in church may be aln indeed justified by the happy results of the unprecedented and phenomenal experiment I 1 1931 bell syndicate service |