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Show TAKING DOLLO TO CHURCH. Bold Innovation Proposed by an English Eng-lish Minister. Rev. R. H. Armstrong, president of an English Unitarian association, at a recent conference) said that ho had adopted tho plan of preaching a special sermon to children once In ovory llvo or six wooks, but that ovon this wns not sufficient Inducement to keep tho llttlo tots quiot In church. Ho was anxious to instltuto a reform by a novel appeal to tho mothers. Ho requested each mother to bring her llttlo. llt-tlo. girls to church with a doll, which should bo tho "church doll" and which tho child should keep perfectly still during tho wholo service. It IsTnthor discouraging to hear that not ono English Eng-lish mother carried his good advice Into effect, perhaps bccaii30 none was strong "minded enough to begin. But It certainly would havo a qulotlng effect ef-fect on a good many children ono socs in church on a sunny Sunday morning, when tho restless legs nnd busy brains wnnt to go out and play very much nioro than they want to sit qulotly by mother In church. |