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Show Dr. James L Vance 4- When one goes back home for al visit, whether he goes to ihih oi elsewhere or not. one of the thing" ho wants to do there m to go to the church of his childhood, and sit in the old pew. and let memory cast Ita vpell. ' Aa he sit 'here, heaven comes down, to greet him. The noblest and best things in lite get 'he right of wy. The faces of the satr.ts ntpear and the call of Ood la vocal in his heart He goeg out with the call of the eter-' nal in him. and duty must be plainer' and ourage easier fat that hour In, I the old church. There is an awful fold in the life that has grown up without a ehurch Parents have emptlad the lues of their I children of vast resources for faithful and heroic deeds who have deprived them of their associations wht"h hang around a church. The chun h stands for our highest t thoughts, our purest loves, our clean-' clean-' est motives, eur holiest faltha. and our most unselfish deeds. Jt Is th. meet Ing place of friends whuse devoti each other Is pnnl and sane: i by the sacrament of God It Is life I hol of holies where contract im had with the shrine ineffaMe It is nhrre ! God pnlla back the curtain and reer-j snce loka In on thing divine I It la to the church we come to ' receive the amterg of baptism, and it la to the church wt com to have th I tears of it -f wiped away. It la there the marriage ong la sung an.t the troth plighted that weda till death shall parr Then when the dv I la done and our work la over, it la t the church we carry the fa Ult of It fever forevwr. to apeak ti Its dissolution the message of Immortal hope. I unnot understand peopl mho neer st thr church- |