Show MAKES PLEA I FOR FLAPPER Clergyman Thinks Church Must Attract Youth By Modem i Ideas I OMAHA Neb Neb April ApU CEy 16 16 BY The Tho Pre Press When Whoever ever doctrines tor for religion on connot canoot be Interpreted to hold the Inter Inter- Interest r- r est eat of ot youth the tho end ot of or those doe doc doctrines c- c trines and customs is in sight said the Rev Dr William 1 U Gardner Gardnor secretary ot of the tho depart depart- department rt- rt mont ment ot of religious education of the tho tI ho church In a sermon do- do here hero Sunday It If they have vital truth troth youth finds It and clothes It In new now phrases and l fIgures and makes make It an asset la Inhuman In human endeavor It was Dr Br Gardners Gardner's for I some declaration on which ho could eo go before the tho youth of the church and reassure them that resulted In tho the adoption by the of at o educational leaders leders ot of the Episcopal church Saturday ot of the tho resolutions that the tho church ch a documents and official 1 t teaching do not hamper their the youth youths youth's spirit of oC honest search earch scan for tor truth nor the desire delre to got gota c a lArger il- il vision ii of It it i and that ht the i narrower position whIch Ignores ea the fruit of ot modern knowledge and the tho results of ot scientific research resean I If not the position of ot thIs th church STANDS STI IX K FLiPPER FLAPPER Wo Wo stand today In the pros pros- enco nce of one of ot the great reat youth you mo of ot history Dr Gard- Gard Gardner Gardnor Gar Garner ner nor declared Somo Some of ot us dot don doni realize It We have lived out 01 our lr time We 0 look about us and tl the morals and the tho manners mannot's ot of o the oung people shock us Dr Gardner the th of the tho day who dress and ta talk and think a as 11 they like I am one of ot those is ho stand star for tor or the flapper She Is a 3 a s of the tho time Dr Gardner do- do d dared clar d As As she sweeps down the street he he ho is ts like Uke nothing so much mitch muc os as a tine fine young spirited puppy doll dog oter ager tor for th the tho tray W Wedo W wrong to condemn them to decry deor them to suspect them Youth Youth its Youth abroad il abroad In the age which stands emphatically tor for tho the doctrine ot of equality of ot the tho sexes exes and Is III lag upon being betas heard hear In the time NEW y UXOLA V Dr Gardner declared that the he duty ot of o those who would steer teer tight Is 1 to retain what yOuth Is possible In tn themselves and wel wei come ti this i- i iti youth ti movement In the anti n anist In direction n ntO tO tOa to a movement which cannot be stayed Most Moat Christians all oer o'er tile thin world ho declared and cape espe daily chilly It If they come como from Now New Eng Eng- England England land have bave a conscientious that unless goodness Is accompanied panted by a 0 duo amount ot of dl- dl comfort it Is 1 not The Pha youth ot of the day has repudiated repudiate this Ide Idea A factor In the nc new movement of ot youth he declared Is ha a demand for the tho unfettering ot of religious thought EAGER EAGEn TO LB W RN and girl With the ordinary ordina- boy Is ceaseless Inward about everything and religion does not escape Youth kno knows that a large amount of ot his his- hisman man education I la Is carried on by stories that are arc not true In tad fact but which contain true ti-ne merits Some of oC our boys boy and ond girls are aro tracing down that source aro are deep deep- the tho whole process To say that young men and women between n 16 and 25 are arc not Inter Inter- Interested interested ested In religion Is to be bc blind to ta ships that carry the finest signal of hope They may not be bo inter inter- interested e ested ted In your religion or mine but they are arc deeply Interested In the religion needed by their own ago The genius of oC religion is that It must b ba bo conserved and passed on onto onto to the next nest generation The ec gen gon- genins ins Ills of youth il is that It mutt most adapt ada that religion to its lt It own needs If there thoro I Is to be growth In truth Dr E Gardner Garner silil soul N lIlY The turning of ot toward the thic church Dr Gardner asserted tIO tho tio seeking of ot its methods for ti po poser er for right aro creating a second reformation refer In religious ous thinking There I is 11 youth nailing flatting s to tho the church door doo Much truth Is still In to the methods metho anti and thoughts but the tho old methOd baa ha ceased to have meaning for these bon bom boy and mid girl with their m radio and their new book books which Bh give ve them II a new flew idea of the InfinIty in in- in Ity of ot the universe llo Shall we sty stay this when boYo boy boi and aDd tt girl rl question religion 7 1 |