El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
MORE MEN OBROADWAY SATURDAY
NIGHT THAN TOCHURCHES SUNDAY
Rev. Miles Hanson Gives artng Social Survey; Says
More Men Enter Two Saloons on San Antonio Sat
urday Night Than to Churches on Sunday; He
Urges Laymen to Get Men to Church.

"HE Laymen's Missionary Move
ment will be a failure. in the
opinion Of Rev. Miles Hanson,
pastor Of the First congregational
church, unless 5000 men OF FL Paso who
do not attend church are reached N
part or in whole. He made the state
ment before the 81 laymen who are
planning the missionary convention IN
lei Paso at the Tuesday luncheon in the
Sheldon grill, and based ms isures
upon the fact that of the total popula-
ton OF FL Paso 10000 speak Englisn,
and OF this number there are cow men
who might under right conditions, ne
church attendants.
One In Church-SiN Ont.
"Our survey of the churches show,
said Rev. Mr. Hanson, that we nave a
total registration Of 100 men in the
churches and the average sunday at
tendance is between zoo and 1000. IN
other words. we have one man IN the
church to every six 20 seven men that
More on broadway Than in Churches.
when I learned this unpleasant
truth I made an investigation and as
covered that. in two saloons on san
Antonio street. more men entered and
drank on a Saturday night than enter
into all the churches OF Ell Paso on
Sunday. Furthermore. I found that
more men go down upon Broadway
and visit the houses there on Saturday
evening and night than attend the
churches Of FL Paso on a Sunday.
Must Reach These Men.
1T was a terrible revelation and
believe that unless we can reach some
OF these COCO men our work will fail
7 am not disputed about the 1l09
men who attend the churcnes. I feel
all right on that score But how 70
meet the needs Of these other 5000!
have only one suggestion and that u
that every man who registers to at
III Ma
self TO bring another man We can
then reach a part of the 5000"
sBring I'm the Six or Seven
Mr. Hanson also recommended thaE
all the pastors Of the city on the sun
dav preceding the conference, open
upon Men and Religion" and that II
this were done II might do much to-
ward bringing in a few Of the six 10
seven men out OF church to the one
man that is in.
Indifference ChIOrOfOrm.
w. B. Gillespie characterized indif- !
ference as the curse Of modern re-
ligion. He spoke Of Il as the DEVILS
and that it paralyzes both /
the will and the enthusiasm Of church /
He said that the original |
Of designating men as goats I
in the biblical reference to separation |
n the sheep from the goats. grew out !
of the fact that the goats were III
different and committed the sin Of not 4
doing anything.
Light Burns DimIy.
christianity is the light Of the
world" said Mr.. Gillespie. But I !
sometimes thing tNat our individual I
apers are pretty dim and that we will
ave to work pretty hard to keep our I
lights shining. We are living in a /
ruly commercial age and we must
ombat many ideas of greed and /
varice We do not discover talent in
young man or woman but what our
rst thought is to commercialize it,
~I1l Paso is not a church going city |
nd il il dGe 20 the fact that the mem
.ers Of the churches have been indif-
erent. We must set about to change
ur ways and TO weed out this evil that
8 manning US most of all"
More Enthusiasm Needed.
y. r. Wade spoke OF the necessity
or generating more enthusiasm for
hurch work generally and for the
oming missionary convention in par
icular il it is to be made the success !
he churches hope for IL.
G. A. Martin told Of the publicity
forts OF the committee and David
TcKnight urged further efforts to-
Yards registration. reporting but 293
o far registered. He asked that every
minister devote some time to this work