Show GOING TO CHURCH 1 WAS brought up to go to church sometimes we drove three abree and a halt half miles from our house houge to the village sometimes if the horses were tired or overworked over worked we walked the weather made little difference if it was cold we bundled up if it rained we crouched under huge cotton umbrellas our shoes were all shined on saturday night our sunday clothes carefully laid out our bodies made fit and proper for the sunday service there was wag never any discussion as to whether we should or should not go t to church going to church was like going to school it was a foregone conclusion cl good for our minds good for our souls we got the habit and like most habits of youth it still persists find the reward is worth while lash wagner did not go to chur church eh gasn sunday though it has been his bis custom to do so go regularly at home ue lie Is in fact a member of the church and looked upon somewhat as a leader in religious matters in ills his home community he explained tile omis omission slon to himself and to ills big family in the letter lie ike wrote home by alleging that he was too busy the unfamiliar and exacting duties of a new life had taken ills his time and required his attention I 1 lie ile had in fact however been out rather late on friday night at a party saturday afternoon he had gone riding with some friends who had a car in town and saturday night he had been at a smoker and later had attended the second show at the park it was late when he got to bed and late when he be awakened in the morning after he be got up he be sat around halt half dressed until dinner was ready ills real reason for not going to church was not that he was busy but that lie he was a little lazy and just a little afraid not knowing the boys boya in the house that it might not be the tha popular thing to do ue he waited tor for someone to make the start or the suggestion and no one did ile he lid did not have quite the courage to admit that he was religious and unless he develops a little strength of character ho he will perhaps not go to church next nest sunday church Is a good habit it turns ones mind away from the dally routine it calls his af attention to higher ideals it emphasizes his duty to god cod it strengthens his big character and wards olt off temptation and offers an opportunity for service it Is a habit learned early or seldom learned at all one can give a score of creditable reasons for not going to church but not one of them would hold it if analyzed you can go if you really want to it if you dont its because you are lazy or indifferent or afraid to stand on your principles |