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Show MEMBERS OF A CHURCH OWE A DUTY At the week of prayer service in the First M E. church last niRht the subject sub-ject was "Church Attendance That God May Move Our Wills to Worship" Wor-ship" The pastor declared that people peo-ple were getting more careless about their duty toward the services of the church "The shows, the excursions, the parties, the auto rides have the crowds, C hildren are growing up in the Sunday school without gettine into in-to the habit of attending the rhunh service, and where are youths in the evening? We need a revival of tlv sen9e of the duty of attending church The church service is the heart of the work of the church. To make the church successful, It Is necessary to give this service hearty co-opeia-tlon Every one who reverently and prayerfully attends helps to make it a success, and every member who un necessarily stays away helps to make It a failure. "When the spirit moves our hei rl we are attracted to the services of worship. We are glad when they 'Let us go up to the House of the Lord.' Then the service of prayer and praise would be relished There would be an impulse to prayer and praise that would demand expression Staying at home reading devotional literature, even. doe8 not satisfy the sptrlt-fllled heart We need the communion com-munion of saints " Tonight the theme for prayer and rlisi usslon will he. ' That God May-Move May-Move the Wills of the Unsaved t i Come to Him." |