Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-03-06
Why You Should Go To Church
BY Reu. w. A. Ross, In Charge of
The PRESBYTERIAN Missions of
Brownsville.

Brownsville.

~Got"rhurh~ SUNDAY serves to remind ~ afr>h IT the pn 3 The church
has hal in The progress 81 the world aud "Opens ~ thc. broader subject r. vhth
church sunday. but ao 80 very other day il Jc wear Intending services
j. one way # eivingt this support md If worth this uprrt \ i worthy r. IN
support
We will nt discuss a. present the duty which Christians ~ to the
church That t. understand The, have publicly prhc>>rl a. IT, l"aI ~ christ
the head Of the church. Thy have pr fr~Nd their Gath N II - ~ divine origin.
the agency, that ,l h> established fr The salvation ~ the vurIi and not ~
attend aud ~urTrl i ~ every, va, h the BETRAYED q ! trust : Lack y LOYALTY
TINT is objectionable.
Bat everybody lould atcnd and lend sympathy and support v the church
The hurrh deserves thr ~upprf h''ausc Of il irlrfrfft activity ever
unamif~ting itself in efforts for the rclrf IF human want and woe There ~ y
spirit that eo> forth from the church Tor The Suorr II AT that need individual
help aud for the uplifting Of an ra->r> that have hn - long re'ttrn. ANIL
IN t. hard to understand why The rhuth d> not have more cn~id
crntnn aud more cooperation from The men # the worIl. who though animated
the rar - must r that Tin condition 81 the world would t. very different
from what ia in il the church did not exist
The church deserves support "f all ltrauSr r the Transformations that have
been wrought through it, agency. The Christian nations are easily II the
= transforming power which nrlins individuals and nations Il Transforms
communities Il makes the world into something Tar different from what i
would otherwise ~.
WHOM Iam~ Russell Lowell attended : banquet IL The cr # london
reh M. aud irmmnI remarks with regard to the ftmi, that still
fingered n The world mon those who believed in the >urrrnatual: and when
Mr. Lowell r~- ~ respond To- = complimentary toast. rs said: ia j. very easy.
g~tl. men. >rtin" in ~ elegant apartment like TINS around = table "vcrrl
with flowers with nj. the tokens of refined civilization about us D. VERY
cm, t. speculate about religion il . i,rr~ WAY. and t. east >Iur~ AMI refer
lions upn il. bat while or friends "a a. indulge themselves "a the adjustment
." dbrarIng religion they womd 80 wen To- u.s. thankful that the, live ia \
land where the gospel has tanned The icfmiN and hen>tim~S of thrc WIZ lnt
tor Christianity might harI lung az carn their cirr<N~h like The South 80
Islanders. or cut off their heads and ru~l their skins like The monsters n. The
French revolution. would Ir clad il an, one ri he gentlemen would point IT,
me ten miles square mn this globe where a nan could raise a family hcrntl.
undcr protection of ul and equitable laws where biz chillrn could lr raised
rurIrmlrl and unrrlurd where arr j. rrvrrcnrd. infnv cherished woman
honpr~l manhod respected and human life made secure: when >Hh 2 place
ten miles square RAJ Ic found where The gospel .. Christ has not gone and
cleared the way and laid the foundation # ne Christian civilization. then il
will .hr h order for ~Errti> I" Nrntilatr their views"