The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-06-03

TORS u meager sum Tor part OF thel
t time.
There were times" commented M
4 Reavis, "When a church member O
2 that town falling sick, would have t
5 send $50 miles to get his pastor"
The evangelist had gone there t
!, conduct a revival meeting. He foun,
"churchianity" clouding Christianity
Then he made his cooperation pro
position. The results were bigge
than ever he had hoped for.
The members of the Christian
Church dropped the name and strucl
hands with Methodists, Baptists anc
Lutherans. The Sunday school grew
from about thirty to one hundred
The church building soon became toe
small to hold the audience who
gathered under the name Of the crush
Hill Church" to hear the Rev. Frank
Leonard preach. Last October they
decided on larger quarters and $500
was pledged as a starter. The con-
gregation adjourned to a hall over a
store building and began rebuilding
the old Christian Church. The en-
thusiastic volunteers donated the
foundation, and the platering and va
rious parts, and the building that was
dedicated Sunday was pronounced by
Champ Clark, speaker of the lower
house of Congress, who was present at
the dedication, as one of the finest
of Missouri and the birthplace of an
idea destined to revolutionize and
energize Christianity.
The church has a handsome audi
forum seatig $50 people, and five
Sunday school rooms that accommo-
date 230 pupils. 1t has a large base
ment, where many social events will
take place, and the whole is heated
by a modern furnace and lighted with
gas from its own system.
A total of $4,000 was pledged at
dedication, and the church be-
gan its official career in the new home
free of debt. One of the pledges was
$500 from the young mems Bible
class, consisting of thirty young fell
ows, most of whom have never taken
any interest in church before. Also
it is interesting to note that the
,hurch is looking for a live, progress
i've pastor and will pay him a living
salary when they find him.
But Rush Hill claims civil as we'll as
eligious advantages.
at believe that crime and ill feeling
lave been reduced 100 per cent as a
esult of this new brotherhood" the
ather of the movement declared the
ther day.
1t was the success of the plan at
sush Hill that prompted the evange- :
lst to make a unique proposition at
'rinceton, Mo-, last November, which
as borne fruit in a new $4,000 CO.
perative church which is under way.
Mr. Reavis was called to Princeton
} conduct a gospel meeting. Here,
%, he found churchianty blocking the
ay of christianity. So he asked for
conference with the business men
{ the town, and held it at the court
ouse so that no faint of donomina-
onalism could spoil the effect of what
; had to say.
Business without religion is poor
lsiness," he told them, "and religion
lthout business is poor religion.
"Let me make you this proposition.
you would give the increase of your
Isiness during the next five years, I'LL
uld out of this money alone build
u a $4,000 church and take my sal
y, and in those five years 1 could
uble the population of your town.
ore than that, by means of the CO.
church l could largely elm
ate crime, reduce the number of
.ad BEATS and do away with many
sting evils"
More recently still, the idea has
fire in Canton, Mo-, where a
ms Bible class has been formed,
is rapidly growing.
How far will the plan go?