| Show why dont I 1 bo oo to church from boston transcript why dont igo I 1 go to I 1 have hard stopped long enough in in the busy rush of life to ask axx mv self the tile question quei tion before well N w li h dont I 1 IT I 1 Is ili it be because caus I 1 have lost the deep Nene veneration ration I 1 had for sacred things in my ought lias my conception of the tile delt clun gid or ni conception of the sacredness of the church of the healthful ilfin ence upon life of contact at least once a u week eck with rith other person persons NN who ho like myself mys lf are seriously tr trin nip despite baumi frailties to li live e 11 lives as ag clean and ni worth orth while as ai possible changed I 1 reason for my not going to church does not lie in an of chest things my natural reply would be Be because canso on oil sundays I 1 am too tired and I 1 do not believe that whether a man mail goesta goes to church or does not go to church is any evidence of ins its progress either in lit goodness or badness going to church will nill not make a man a good man mail any more than staging home borne from church will all make him bad goodness must mint be attained not by an ail act or actions on oil standa sundays s but by the way we ic conduct ourselves during doring sc seven tai oll ol dis l s a week Cler clew ginexi men arc are of many kinds the tile mini is a trite person whose mouth only utters commonplaces echoes of bigger men I 1 have liae had the pleasure and honor of knowing many clergymen and many of them have not been of this sort but in dour average church on oil sunday morning the minister vill ill rise and go through the bame trade expressions ai h have hae icci I 1 ee I 1 uttered in pill pits for the last several life is brief I 1 must make the most of mine while I 1 hav ban e it do you oil suppose that I 1 can call waste it in lit hearing sermons that contain no uplift no originality nothing but a drar reNer reversion sion to an air ancient theology thi which however sacred and it I 1 is sacred to me is ii useful only by applying appling it in lit a practical pr ma to our manner of life in this car ca of our lord I 1 am ant frequently asked b ministers mim wh uh more wore men do not go to chumil I 1 believe I 1 can call truth truthfully full ansi answer cr that iN whether hether men inen go to chamb or stay sta at home depends to a I 1 irge digree upon the minister himself or perhaps I 1 would be more truthful if I 1 said that the rei rea son so many men inen sta at home from churila i because of what mm min aisters have said in the past pait the drear dreary dr drones aies of their sundi sunday mes nies sages 1 hw bell I 1 hive have at in elbow all the d utter titter incas of the past p ond and present en gri at N work arks that lift the soul up tilt with ith ni tit tint it tr tit heend the monotone of cv erdi wh sh uld I 1 go and sit nt at the foot of a teacher who nho has noth nothing to to teach ou oil must know life oil must be in ill contact with ener s side 1 ide ot it show S how me ine that nen ev bedford clergy man whose ints sige has not lost its in lit or its po power er and I 1 N will ill show 3 ou oil a inan i who ho has bas lived 1 I ed close to tile c er da man makii ilose to ou oil and me lite and the tile rest of us ils it is haul that there is ii strength to be deavid from front the soil the greeks told of a god who ever tune time ins his foot touched the bentli bf b caile canut stronger humanity has the same power the dos clos r we me get to it the stronger strong t r we ue become the minister s plat pine e is in the tile neild ho lie must not turn a cold shoulder to this man mail or sitt sto bet be nise the deflor frum from him in their beliefs nor disdain diso luin and condemn whit he docs does not understand lie must not tr to hammer out wit a world to suit stilt himself god ha has made the world a steel block it will i ill not 3 v icid lie ile must take the world just us as lie finds it and then tr to b honimer iliner out hn lill own soul to fit it 3 7 V r 20 X WI w r the ministers too often build themselves thein seles up tip bogies that are stuffed oil kiil knitli straw and spend much strength in lit hinging binging at these straw evils with big words nord and much hot lot breath the world is vi too full of real sin pill and sulf sulfuring tring to waste time tinie hitting at patt things thing A cibir ma injure a man t health but it is a leikness wei NN e kness and not a sin is as an exercise as walking or swimming ou cannot dian those who he danic god does not it is dalI LIll in ill the tile birong wnm oil oab that is evil control it do not rule it out the theatre is a natural and lie amusement if 3 oil ha have c the right kind of theatre man fail has alna always needed the ph in ins his life 1 I lie church fathered it the hurk must not and cannot cist cast it out now jo po not mii the theatre condemn bid bill play and foul foill mouthed pla clavers pl avers erg be ile big and broad and ke ket 1 p N v our hands clean of the dust if i our library you probable know enough of books mr nir minister if vou oil dont a 3 oil sl resign from the ministry at once IN hat YOU 3 ou net d is a little let por knain knowledge ledge of nien inen knauthe h hauton know knon 3 our first have llad vou accomplished ahe hible bible is a it gortat book bool As literature I 1 hold told it first of ail adv lung ever written in the english language I 1 suppose the books of the hc T ible lu in thor tongue t must have ha e been even ei en greiter greater bill the bible was mas meeril i irs ago onan the divine pou L r of the christ lit ikas it jo 0 o well nell adapted to life to la lav and tile deap knowl dge its authors had of elifet for lit lite boll see never liener hanes I 1 it t is the same todi ns as esterday ester dav tind and the sanie toni orrow as xi it is today ihna I 1 hat is the wonder monder ot tit it the mir martole mi rile tole the divina spirl in lit lift its un tilt hut but lito lite is greiter gretter than tin bible because it lame fust fast and will niso also be last lost therefore life is amir text mr 31 and the nible rach beurce of hamd mil orations trat ions lift life life yive give me itie that on oil sanda trenta d treated with tle the intili geme gente whit chuh 4 1 I ceet from ail ill ui tit valm aws to bf biglowe come mi mv teacher and I 1 will sixt at our let e ev i n profit ha h our teaching but bitt as for or swallowing 1 I 1 wn 11 fir listening to echoes I 1 will not du it N iture ita t tl I 1 I 1 t aahl god the bast pr eulier if his sp p kt it u on earth f full ail eirls the vallea a the nv nr i s tl ti it I 1 alwa w and mid the s i rhe j peak to ni of if etc otc arnst N the tile join and thoL moon of dan t sla 00 aud the matu bindo ot h dad ind tit rose pet petal of tt ti 1 11 un borget tile t MU r r t tilt church anil ic le i in it and I 1 afi th giau to 0 me chiuli |
