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Show QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE. Why Mountaineer Men and Women Sit Apart in Church. j (Kansas City Star.) A man wus talking to his fellow travelers travel-ers In a Pullman smoker. "On one occasion," he said. "I . was down in the mountains of Tennessee, where everything is primitive, and on Sunday I attended a Baptist church. Much to my surprise and interest, tho women were seated on one side of .the house and the men on the other. I had never seen anything of the kind before, and after services were over I s;ioke to one of the members about it," as he was a pillar of the church and a man I knew quite well. " 'We have always done it that way,' he said in explanation. " 'But why?' I persisted. " 'So's to worship God aceordin" to our own consciences, as the constitution pej--vides,' he replied, in a matter of course tone. ;.. t " 'But sitting' on opposite sides of the church doesn't make any difference with your conscience, does it?" I kept on. " 'Don't it?' he said, ' with emphatic confidence in the knowledge that it did. 'Well.' it makes all the difference in the world. Po you mean to say that a man kin sit over there alongside tiv his wife, where she kin nudge him in the short ribs with her elbow every time the preacher says anything she thinks fits his case? I say. kin a man do that and worship God aceordin' to hto conscience? Not much he can't T reckon, nowhere, an' pertickler not in this neck tiv woods.' "The explanation and the nrgument carried conviction beyond all controversy, and I had no more to say." |