THE LAYMAN
Leave it to the ministers, and soon church will die, Leave it to the womcn-folk 'h* young will pass it by. For the church is all that lifts ui from the coarse and selfish mob. And the church that is io prosper needs the layman on the job. Now a layman has his business, and t layman has his joys, But he also has the training of h s little girls and boys; And I wonder how he'd like it if there were no churches here, And he had to raise his children in a Godless atmosphere? It’s the church's special function ta uphold the finer things, To teach that way of living from which all that's noble springs; But the minister can't do it, single, handed and alone, For the laymen of the country ara the church's cornerstone. When you see a church lhals empty, though its doors are opened wide. It is not the church that’s dying—-it's the laymen who have died; For it's not by song or sermon thatv the church’s work is done, K It’s the laymen of the country who for God must carry on. —E. A. Guest, in Michigan Christian Advocate. Sent in by “Layman.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 121, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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203THE LAYMAN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 121, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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