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Show W DR. VANCE'S DA1LYMCIE I" He. was alone llh the big church on a week day near the noon hour. Ho sat there In the pew quietly meditating, meditat-ing, as I had often seen him sit before be-fore He was not reading, nor praying, pray-ing, eo far as I could discover. Ib-was Ib-was sitting quietly In the house of God. He was at the head of a big business that employed several hundred hun-dred men. and ne no doubt, carried heavy burdens of Mis own and others. Curious to know Just why he was in the habit of taking time out of the busy day to come and sit In the bur' I,, 1 flopped him as he Wat In , out, and said "I am curious to know why you came. I have often seen you silting hero when you thought you '4U were alone. What brings you?" -Sfl; No.' lie replied, 1 arn never alone ; jH1 here I like to come and sit In the stillness of the church Just to hac hf of the divine presence fall .'i it -I.. i .: i , Bo a v. . rested and strengthened ' H Is there not tunny a man carrying irHI big burdens today who would find a gB quiet half hour In the church with' tH u sense of the divine presence falling1 H about him the renewal he needs fori H tasks thai aie pre at for problems that! H are serious, and for burdens that are , H heavy '.' And so the church is a serv-i Ice station where the exhausted bat-' fl tery of human life may be recharged. I In the rush we lose our bearings.; I ifil The tumult confuses us. The ctrcUi ' ZB3 breaks us down. The world shallows, H us out. We are worn and xpent 'i are dazed and bewildered The worries' i 11 and frictions and aitxivtles of business have gone on our nerves. We need more than a pause We need renewal Wc must build up our spent force by fresh contact with the great dynamo. The finite must be renewed b the Infinite. The human battery mnpt be rerharged Il Is worth while to make a pilgrimage pilgri-mage to a sanctuary, to step from the street to the cloistered alienee of God r house, ami have a snse of the divine presence fall about you, aa an Inaudible voice ays: "Bo still, and i know that I am God." oo |