Show AUTOS TOS AND ND CHURCHES Things are not Dot going to be as we ve would like to see them mound around M Manti anti until a lot of us wake up to the fact that while the auto is a wonderful vehicle it is in a way a liability instead f an asset set in still another way The most serious complaint we ve have to register against it is that it detracts from church attendance attendance attendance at at- and threatens the greatest of all institutions We haven't the figures at hand to show v how rural and town small churches are suffering more and more each year through decreased decreased decreased de de- de- de creased attendance But such figures are easy to obtain One thing we are all an pretty much agreed upon is that the present generation n needs the church fully as much as did the generation that t preceded it And the next generation is apt from all indications to need it more Because the auto permits permits permits per per- mits one to attend church at a great distance from home does not mean that people are using it for that purpose Church at at- attendance attendance attendance has dwin dwindled led especially during r July and August in every section of the country and is not in proportion to what it once was vas during during- the other ten months in the year Anything that discourages church attendance is harmful harmful- Put the auto would take people to church as easily and comfortably comfort comfort- ably as it takes them elsewhere if they would only head it in that direction Ve We read in the good book that Elijah was carried to heaven haven in in a chariot of fire Can it be that a lot of present-day present citizens are going going- to be he carried to the other place in a more mode modern modern mod mod- e ern vehicle vehicle the vehicle the the automobile |