Williams news., 1918-12-27
'WHY NOT GO TO CHURCH
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 version of human nature to neglect the most important things of life and fail to put first things first.'' The body and physical needs are our first thoughts, usually, and we think of our physical appetites and their qualification to the neglect of the souls needs and our eternal interest. These should be of first importance.
 I met a soldier boy on the train a few days ago returning from France to his home in Berkeley California. He had been wild jolly boy and join ed the Army at 16 giving his age at IS. had been wounded twice in his left leg and was still lame had been gased and reported to his home, Killed in action," as his identification card was lost. His two broth l CTS were k11l0U.
 This boy said to me, "This war has converted many an in fdel. When they came to face the bayonet and death they re- nounce their infidelity. They will believe there is a hell, too, hereafter, after going thru this hell of war;, then there is no place else to put those who are responsible for the war and crimes that have been com n1itted. What kind of heav- enwould it be, and who would want to go there, if the Kaiser and his kind are a part of heav- en?
 God has permitted this war and the terrible scourge of the Spanish "Flu" to sweep over the world for some great pur- pose. We had become Com mercialized as a nation, and Amusement mad" and other nations had gone after the gods of pleasure and mammon. We have been brought face to face with war and pestilance and death, and Hell, and we at home need to stop and think seriously on these things. and about the future, just as "our boys" lover there" who have faced the enemy and death. We should crowd the places of wor- ship every Sunday morning and evening just as our soldier boys do when they have the oppor- tunity and just as yodr article of a few weeks ago called at tention that France, England, Italy and Belgium have all ex- perienced a remarkable revival of religious interest since the war began.
 It is not question of wheth- CT the minister is a great preacher or not; it is question of our individual and national obligaton to God and our de- pendence on Him.
 It is not a question of creed or sectarianism; it is ques- tion of choice and character; a question of the destiny of indi- viduals and nations ques- ton of "The kingdoms of this world becoming the kingdom of our Lord and His Christi" a question of our willing alleg- lance to Him before whom 'sEv- cry knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord to the Glory of God the Father
 Let Christians and Jews. l Protestants and Catholics all realize that when our soldiers. come home they will not stand l for the old time religious Bigot- ry and jealousies, they will l not stand for any namby- pamby sentimental stuff It 1 must be virile Gospel and a | Christianity that willap- peal to men who have endured | and experienced what they l have "fell and seen'.
 l do not appeal to the people of Williams on this question as Sectarian.
 There are enough people here to crowd all our churches every Sabbath. Come to church | of your choice. Let us all | worship God together and work together for His glory and our good. When I visited my sons at camp Sherman. Ohio. before l they went to France, I went | with them to the v M CA 1