Show too many make religion a matter of their personal comfort by DR ALVIN L E MAGARY detroit M I 1 went vent to that church a few times said the good man and I 1 got great croal profit from the services but the seats wore rather uncomfortable and I 1 decided to go elsewhere ilia remark IS ia a commentary on oil more things in in modern life than our choice of a church there was wag a thile when our fathers would broye brave blizzards and sit through a two hour sermon bannon la in a church in which a cur ner iner stove struggled led vainly against a wro temperature today we insist on being comfortable whether we aro are righteous b or not I 1 wonder if it would not be profitable pron table for us to remember that ilia t re ligion has not aldays ag been a matter of comfortable listening to a comfortable preacher arid and a comfortable choir our forefathers ninny many of them pal paid id dearly for the convictions by which they ruled their lives some of them were imprisoned in ill prisons where the seats were some sat eat in ill the stocks mid and had no cushions under them some inid aid their heads not on soft pillows but on the block some wore were warmed for their faith it is true trite but tile the fires f ires that warmed them also r roasted them alive K arent you being a little too insist insistent elit that life shall glint bo be a comfortable thing do deally any of us suppose that almighty god is ia interested lit in providing for us a comfortable sent scat in ilis II 11 is sanctuary when we complain about tl it life wo we live tit do we forget that eliat our fathers bought it for us with blood and sacrifice flee |