The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-10-07
"SOME DOUBTED"
But They We're Not Church GOers-In.
terest Deepcns in Local Movement,

Have you heard all the talk about
the church going movement now Law
ing hold of the Twin Falls people? :?
Just drop into some store, office, ho-
tel. barber shop or other place of a
public nature, or into some up-to-date
home and in less than five minutes
time the now popular theme of church
going will come up for discussion.
Everybody is talking it. Yes, you are
not up-to-date, you are not abreast of
the times, you are not popular in Twin
rails today if you are not informed on
the church going campaign that is
now so widely known and so strongly
laying hold of the general public.
Again you are not making the most of
your opportunities and are leaving
yourself open to the accusation of in
dlfference and even of ignorance if
you do not attend church on next
Lords day and hear one of the evan
gelical preachers of this city preach on
theme common to all their pulpits
on that day, viz: ''The Mission of the
church: Sermon |. "A Broader In
tellect. Your neighbor will be there
to hear the sermon and remember,
the man who gets his sermons sec
ond-handed from his neighbor is not
only likely to get an unsatisfactory
and necessarily peace-meal sermon
put he is even more to be pitied than
the fellow who habitually "borrows''
his neighbor's weekly paper.
You reply, Il have no interest in
the church." Granted Please re-
member there is never any interest
where there is no principal invested.
And where there is no principal in
vested no fortunes are made. And
where no fortunes are made there is
no independancy. Therefore, cease
being the bond servant of sin and be-
come a free man in Christ Jesus. Go
to church.
Another says Il must have my Sun
days for recreation" Are you so bur
dened with labor that you have no
time for church going on Sunday for
fear something will be left undone at
home or at the office? Other folks,
| equally as Industrious as yourself.
find time to respect the Lords day
But, granting that your argument has
the appearance of logic in it, if you
use your Lords days for the sole pur-
| pose OF resting of your bodies and the
dlvert1ng of your minds, when do you
expect to find time for the culture of
that immortal soul of yours? Is il
not of as equal Importance as your
muscles or your brains? Think it
over Go to church.
Another says, ''There are hypocrites
in the church." Granted. There are
spots on the sun, too, therefore, be
consistent and retreat to the basement
and hide yourself from the sun, else
In his unselfishness he will cast his
radiant beams upon you. Furthermore,
who has promised you salvation, the
hypocrite who may be in the church,
or Christ? In the days of Moses some
of these serpent bitten Israelites look
ed upon the crooked pole which up
held the brazen serpent and criticised
rather than look upon the brazen SER
pent itself and be healed, and the sad
fact is that their descendants are still
with us. Go to church.
Hear this notable word from Glad
stone: "The older | grow the more
confirmed | am in my faith and reli-
gion. | have been in public life fifty
eight years, and forty-seven in the
cabinet of the British government,
and during those forty-seven years |
have been associated with sixty of the
master minds of the world, and all but
five of the sixty were Christians Go
| to Accommodated