Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-29
WHY He GOES TO CHURCH

Washington. Angus, 2S-Some
members OF Congress become fam
Gus by making speeches. Others
achieve fame through the enact
ment Of legislation bearing their
names. Congressman Claude Weav-
er of Oklahoma has become famous
by simply telling why he goes to
church. He wrote an article on
this subject telling why he goes to
church He wrote an article on this
subject for one of the large maya
zines. His colleague Congressman
Scott Ferriss Of Oklahoma, had
the article read on the floor of the
House. The result is that Claude
Weave is now famous. Here is
why Claude Weaver goes to church:
at is sweet on a summers norm
ing when the air is n culver with
the love songs of the birds and ira
grant with the odor Of roses blown
to hear the music of the church 60
ing bells, an invitation to the world
wearied to enter Gods temple and
find peace. because the instinct of
! worship is in the heart of man and
the church is the temple of the
living God.
| go to church because l find
peace there. that peace which De
Quincy described as resting from
human labors. a Sabbath of repose
a respite granted from the secret
burdens Of the heart as if | stood
at a distance and aloof from the
uprOar of life, if the tumult and
fever and strife were suspended as
if there .brooded over me a dove
like and halcyon calm.
| go TO church because | love the
music that hear there, the mighty
roll of the mighty organ mingled
with the marvellous symphonies of
that divine stringed instrument,
the human voice untwisting all the
chains that tie the hidden soul Of
harmony.
IgI to church because | delight
to hear the great teachings Of the
preacher, whuse soul is dedicated
to God. whose held is as wide as
Gods universe, whose theme is the
destiny of man, and whose words
are the oraclcs of Fate. Marvel
Gus is the spell of the preacher to
whom God has given genius and
conservation and the power of H..
lustration drawn from the old sac
REQ, immortal BOOK, and from the
miracles of nature no less revealed
in the crimson tipped flower turn
ed up by the plowshare of Robert
Burns upon the soil of Ayr than in
the lorg reaches of the star-girt
skies.
| so to church because the way
is dark and the way is far from
home, and because the church is
the polar star to light my pathway
in the rayiess night
| 90 to church because Jhr.church
ministers not only to the spiritual
but also the material needs of life,
and because it is there that the
charities that suotHe and heal and
bless are scattered at the feet Of
man like flowers
90 to church because in that at
mosphcre vice and crime withcr
and die
90 to church because | hear
the teachings of the philosophy nf
Jesus, the Incompatible man: and
il yen say his teachings is philos
ophy and not religion and that he
was a man and not a God, then the
philosophy Of that man has redeem
ed the world from savagery and
blessed mankind with Christian
civilization and to my mind, it is
a thing worth while to hear
IEo to church because | find
there consolation and hope, be.
caua l see there the dawn and
not the sunset; and it is better
for man if the hope is b~aseless
and the vision but an elusive phan-
tom to cherish a dream so glorious
and beautiful than to be weighed
down and crushed with the quar-.
ried mountains Of a world without
hopa and without God"