CHURCH-GOING.
Sir, — I was lately reading' some doleful statistics about the falling-off m attendance at services.
May I suggest, through your column*, that probably one reason for it is that people do not realise thaft all Church-going is " a witness to Christ?" We cannot all speak for and of Him (I am myself an extremely dumb person m this respect!) but "actions speak louder than words,'' and it would be well if we could get fixed deep m our minds that we go to church to witness to the existence of the eternal truths of our religion, quite as much as to get "some good" from, doing so. The Communion service has this idea as one of its keynotes, "Ye do show forth the Lord's death till He came." Our country districts need this idea; if they had it, then it would not be true (as now) "the more motor cars, the less Church-going"— a truth conspicuous m my district.— l am, etc.,. G.F.
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 22, 1 April 1919, Page 175
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