| Show APPLIED christianity we hear much these days about the deplorable lack of religion in the home which is being blamed for the increased number of juvenile offenders and the crime being committed everywhere today statistics prove that a vast number of children have never attended church or sunday school the prisons are also filled with young men and women who could be useful citizens if their early training had been based on some form of religious belief A fine plea was male made u last sunday afternoon via radio by the voice of prophecy asking the fathers and mothers of the country to read the bible and to establish daily prayer service in the home the message was addressed more definitely to the fathers pleading with them to be the kind of example they want their sons to be it if is not enough however to promote some f form orm of daily worship although it will will help to instill the principle of living taught taug litand and practiced by jesus the christ and the early christians who made such effort to establish the christian church only through the application of this teaching every hour in the day may we hope to resolve tie I 1 delinquency now rampant everywhere into the pew mcw and better way of life we know that I 1 ih ll 11 many of the mormon homes and also among the members of the community church families camilie meet in in daily prayer and through the church affiliations for the young folks and adult members a great amount of good is accomplished what is true of this com community is is I 1 likewise true of many other sections in this and in other I 1 states people who live in rural sections are more inclined to think and to act in accord with the christi christ teaching while those who live in cities are too concerned with their theirl material ways of living and in a great majority of homes all of its members are employed each going a separate way and nd doing as they please henry C link noted psychologist psychologists i in his book the return to religion sums up the word religion to mean 94 a belief in god as a supreme being the belief in a divine moral order expressed in the ten commandments and in the life of christ and the acceptance of the church as the chief even though imperfect vehicle of religious truths that are greater than sciences with values that are higher than reason As result of his contact with thousands of persons who are in trouble today and his of the cause of much of their grief dr link claims that the personalities of individuals who believed in religion or attended church was far better than of those who had no belief in a any ny form of religion the present war is the result of a lack of religion and the godless leaders have succeeded in drawing into the war every other nation the result of the war will however cause many who never believed in any kind of worship and who know not the meaning of the golden rule principle of living to make the turnabout turn about stories of men reading their bible for the first time and learning how to pray are many the separation of families has brought about a closer communion with god as prayers are made for the safety of our fighting men there is hope that america is waking up to the need to not only teach the way of life but to practice it on that hope we base the belief that before ion long g applied christianity will replace the old form of worship whereby people attend church or may even hold daily prayer service in the home but who go about their affairs of life without any thought of applying what they read or what they say in the prayers they offer to god whether we believe in or expect jesus to return to the earth to complete his ministry in accord with biblical teaching we must believe in and practice the teaching hie he left there is truth in the following lines taken from the humanity magazine war is the complete denial of the christian philosophy of life it slaps jesus in the face and scorns and mak makes mockery of all that he stood for and taught does any christian clergyman in america deny this fact act f let us take unto ourselves the lessons wars are teaching namely only that which is based upon justice and mercy toward all the weak and the strong the rich and the poor alike can survive all else must p perish erish |
