Show TYPICAL OLD VILLAGE CHURCH writers writer description of house of wor ship Is I 1 one that will linger inthe memory the methodist church in berton iq a little gray house with a long iong necked belfry the eaves come very doors on weekdays are like sorrowful eyes closed in prayer for the members who may be doing what they ought not to do on sundays tucy they lire are wido wide open like the heart of a good man the bell in tile the belfry Is not too loud one of tho those sin singing in sabbath bells heard only in village churches in summer weather the shadows ot of many leaves fall upon the root roof from two great oaks like phan torn tom wreaths of shade and sun bun in winter winds their naked boughs lock arms above it as it if they held it like the lovo love of god in a firm embrace the inside Is filled with a brown gloom from the unpainted walls and pews which have darkened to a deeper richer tone very soft and kind t on oil the first sabbath in every month tha ahn communion table stands within the altar A a white cloth spread over the bread and the wine and the two gob let acts we still take the sacrament here from a common chalice decently trusting the lord to save us from each others contagion it if there is anything else in this world so much like tile the memory of his loving kindness oh how great I 1 as an old church like this with the people kneeling saint and sinner side by side about tills this altar on such a day neither doubting nor judging one another for the moment I 1 have never seen lt it from AL A circuit riders widow by corra narres in the saturday evenin livening post |