The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-11
Tie Religious World
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cate the socia! service worker, thu
mn who has gwen himself to boys
work, the secretary OF student &C
'ivities. TIE superintendent OF girls
clubs, tic rescue mission work er
the leader In young peoples sctiyi
ties7 Let the whole church stand
to ether and behind every one 81
It's representative who goes OF
In its name 20 do larger service for
m kingdom. On many a dlscour'
aged day In their missionary Jour
ney Saul and Barnabas thought with
glow -. Joy, and with new &C
cessioa Of strength, OF the company
o. PRAYING Christians back in An
;ioch. whose representatives they
we're.
a Travellers Tale.
The wonderful incidental corrobo.
rations o. the historical accuracy OF
the Book OF Acts should not be
overlooked. This volume viii stand
the test If all the latest geographi'
cal researches. Like good report
er, snd rnlike uiapy traveller Luke
did not make H. narrative a dreary
chronicle Of - places visited.
His record Is than an timer
AIRY, and ye, aable the
readers 10 folli .Tse of the
travellers as ~ frSt from
great Antioch J., syria down 20 Sc
lucia. where they took ship for the
Island OF Cyp-ns, where they worked
among the jews
Leaving Cirrus. tie rwo mission
aries-who had up 70 this time been
accompanied b; Io..E Mark. who
there proved GdiI'cr-they landed
On the coast Of Asia Minor and went
into the ether ely of Antioch.
which Is called Pisidian Antioch
rhe lesson which began In Antioch
IN Syria continues in the Antioch in
Asia Minor.
In the Old Church.
Anybody who spent Sunday in a
hotel knows tie problem of Sunday
as II ccnfronts the traveller A few
here are who. Ike Saul and Bsrna-
has and like Jesus before them. go
70 the old church on Sunday. These
had not oujgrown the
synagogue II vas not adequate.
and thew lad c bigger and better
Gospel than i knew. vet il was
he best representative of the re-
igion of TIE true God to De found
IN these heather cities, and they
stood by II.
A popular pas time of today Is TO
ind fault with he church--and hog
many faults she has, Yet after all
has beer saf6, the church he
best representative OF God on earth
and the best agency for the service
rf man question the judgment
Of the person Who is too big" TO 60
TO church. anc especially OF the
Christian who thinks that the
church II not holy enough to sat
isfy his. pions soul
met a man OF that sort In q
China city. He had tried all the
churches Of thu city and had even
started one OF his own. But when
I knew him he bad separated from
them al, and was conducting his
own religious exercises i'm his home.
II perhaps would not be charitable
TO quote what the members OF the
churches said about this man. bat
myself found THAT despite his over
piosi.y he was a little
sharper in business than | had sx-
pected ever cranky Christian 10
be, and IL cost me a considerable
yurn TO learn tina a man may be- en-
Iirely too pioas TO go to church.
and yet not too religious to prsc-
ice sharp deals on unsuspecting
on week days.
The 'Co-tochurch movement,
which has SPRUNG out OF the modern
publicity propaganda. is big anc
wise and all seoc citizens should BE-
squareiv behind IL There is
place for everybody in church OF
HIS choice and u IL true service Of
Col and SIN of good citizenship