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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE I "I like to henr that man preach, because be-cause he gives me something to live by during the week " That Is what a buay bualneaa man s.ill about his pastor. pas-tor. It was high praise. Why should people go to church If it Is not for something like this'.' There Is no particular merit In b'.'lng bored, even when the proceas la labelled 'pious" and there Is no realatlesa fascination fas-cination In listening to a pulpiteer perform, per-form, even when he does It well Then vv hat Is the merit of church attend-n attend-n nee If one goes back to his work Monday Mon-day as leun and spent, aa listless and liispltatlonless. as empty of covirage and as void of hope as when he closed clos-ed shop Saturday night, the church has not met his not d There should be something In the hour In God's house to lift us out of tho sordid and selfish, and set us anew In our quest for the lloly Grail, There should tie something In the minister's min-ister's message that makes tired souls look up and take bold nfresh. and Wavering feet straighten and steady A man should go out of thnt aanotuary with a shining vision, and a cleansed COnaclence, and a singing heart, and ,1 win that is charged afreeh with the power that overcomes the world. Then the church must he a power house. It Is a mistake to try to makn it a playhouse People do not go to i hurch for what they can get at the w itheatre. Tho theatre can beat the 'church when It cornea to entertain- IH Iment. The preacher who has dropped EH .down Into nothing hut an entertainer H has forgotten his commission HHH It Is not enough for the church to H .be a schoolhouse It must Instruct, HHH 'but It must do more Men need more , ithan information, they need Snaplra- HHHJ ; I 'on. They nerd motive power strong HH enough to drive life up hill. HHHJ The church has missed Its mission HHH the switch is thrown on Sunday l,H ornjngi ami no power leaps out from I I dynamo to recharge tho U spent wires of human life that are H there to be made alive again. HHH |