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Show i.ig better, and it enables us to grow stronger mentally as well as spiritually. We find ourselves growing more concerned about human progress and we go home and read our newspapers, books and magazines with deeper interest. If we go a little farther and take hold and do some church or community work we will find ourselves our-selves richly rewarded. So let's give our churches more encouragement encourage-ment by attending more reguarly, and especially during the winter months when we are housed up pretty closely and during the week and don't get to see each other or to talk to each other as frequently as we do in more agreeable weather. CHURCH ATTENDANCE Church going with a good many people is a sort of seasonal affair. They are "too tired" on hot summer days and in winter they either have to stay at home and keep up the fires or the roail:J are too bad. In either case their excuse is a poor one. Any time is a good time to go to church, and any church is a good one to go to. The attendance of parents cncourai'e the young people, and there's a lot of truth in the old maxim thai llie way the twig is bent the tree inclines. Wc all nerd a hi lie touch of j inspiration to krep our lives evenly balanced. We hear :iioir;li of sorrow and misery and trouble in our cvery-day work. We see! the dark side of life too often as it is. I hen why not an hour al j church one day a week to give us a brighter view of life ard thai irmpiration whi I) comes with hearing a good sermon a. id iuli',1,1,; elbow with our neighbors and friends? Church goinj; helps us to live happier because it aids us in liv- |