WHY GO TO CHURCH ?

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1924, Page 16

WHY GO TO CHURCH ?

NINE REASONS. Theodore,Roosevelt was one of America's greatest citizens, apart from having been President of that great republic. Did you ever hear his “Nine Reasons for Going to Church?” Here they are:— 1. In this actual world, a churchless community a community where men have abandoned and sc-otted at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid down grade. 2. Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling responsibility for others. - 3. There are enough holidays for most of us. Sundays differ from other holidays in the fact that there are : fifty-two of them every year. Therefore on Sundays go to church. 4. Yes, I know all the excuses. I know' that one can worship the Creator in a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in a man’s own house as w'ell as. in church. But; I also know, as a master of cold fact, that the average man does not thus worship. 5. He may not hear a good sermon at church. He will hear a sermon by a good man. who, with his wife, is enga"o4 a" r>f the w r eek in -making hr.-.-d lives a. little easier. 8. He w r ill listen to and take part in reading some beautiful passages from . the Ttd-.lc And if he ite not fami'iar .with the Bible he has suffei<xl a loss 7. He will take part in the singing f* some good hymns. S. TT-' will meet and nod or speak to good, quiet neighbours. . He will w,, n away feeli "2 a little more charitable toward all the world, even to-wa-d those exoesrivejv foolish young men who regard church’going as a soft ne-fo'mmnoe. o T "r’vw‘,n n mr's joining in -hurr-h work for the sake of. showing bic faith bv H<» works.