Show THE POLICEMAN IN CHURCH sight of uniformed Offic official ll seems to get on an the nerves of the worshipers did you ever see a uniformed policeman in church asked the gray headed man did you notice the effect lie he has on tho the congregation there Is a psychological alk problem worth norih investigating there was a policeman in our church sunday morning As a consequence every ono one had a fit of nerves it the emans fault ile he do anything not in an official capacity that Is lie he come as a policeman but as a worshiper who wanted to say a prayer the same as anybody else his attitude mental and physical was wholly devout he sat la in an all inconspicuous pew in the rear of the church where he be could be seen by a few but in less than five minutes the I 1 knowledge that be was there was flashed from pew to pew and every everybody boly began to fidget they wondered what he wanted somehow it never oce occurred erred to anyone that he be was a seeker after spiritual light they imagined that ae h e had come to arkeat somebody and they were curl ous to see w wp pa it could be that congregation gre gregat gation fon I 1 take it was a law abiding bidy ot of people from the pastor down to the most mischievous choir boy yet everybody suspected everybody else ot 0 wrong doing the pasto got nervous and mixed the pages of his bis manuscript the tha choir sang out of tune an usher dropped tho theca ti oney noney box even after the service was over and the policeman had gone away without taking anybody prisoner it was aa funny to watch the crowd they separated into little groups and each little ittle group eyed some other little group suspiciously and whispered mysteriously that I 1 find Is the usual attitude of a church audience toward a policeman at a fire at a theater at a department store at a prize fight a policeman is considered a legitimate part of the show and no ono one gets excited ov over er him but just let him go to church ft a uniform and thereas there Is danger of havlir to call out the reserves |