THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE.
(To the Editor.) Sir, I—After1—After reading our respected minister's remarks on workers and church-going, my thoughts went back to a time not so many year 3 ago when our leading merchants. lawyers, doctors, etc., walked with stately tread to the Sunday service. When entering the church the people who congregated round the porch made respectful passago for them; solemn vis-aged collectors conducted them to soft cushioned eeats, their silk hats glistened with a brilliant sheen as the sun's rays peered down from many a stained <rta<=s window; their well-modu-lated amens rang out through the sacred aisles in heartfelt tones of deep devotion. Why i= it that people wonder not how these so honoured by the church remain away? Surely, if example is better than precept our ministers ehould try to bring back these pillars of the edifice, then we workers will scrape in unnoticed, and unknown, into the back seats as usual. —I am, etc., SHAKE OT3ALA.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 61, 12 March 1915, Page 3
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