Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-07-04

az from % to 81 miles an hour. Why,
then. can not educational and clean
Sunday amusements, moving pic
tures. athletics. or what-not, especi-
ally when they do not monopolize the
usual hour for the Sunday spoken
sermon, be made an adjunct to the
religious and educational side of the
church?
IN turning our eyes from so years
backward, and looking at the pres
ent. is il very essential that we re-
member that because of the printing
press and the moving picture, we can
and do get sermons, and good ones,
too, without going to church for
hem The pulpit has given way
| (perhaps forcibly) to these two great
present day educational agencies.
People today receive their impress
sions not through the ear, but
through the eye" (Outlook) Preach
ers, therefore must change the form
these conditions. Religion is not be-
Titled thereby, and the church can
not be wholly blamed for the aver
age contracted and small congrega-
ton. Worship is more and more
expressed in works and less and less
in liturgy, and sermons are listened
to in proportion as they tell, not
what to believe, but what to do"
(Outlook). If We accept this idea
as being true. is there not, then,
great advantage to be gained from n
church viewpoint, by cooperating
with the right kind of moving pic
lures? And of coarse, the right kind
CT moving picture, educational and
clean, can be had by regulation on
the part of civic authorities.
A paragraph CLIPPED firm Harvey )
| Weekly hereinunder quoted, shows
only too clearly that some harm IS
being done TO the church from the
inside, and it is such utterances by
some preachers that make the aver
age man prefer the movie or the
written word (which he can always
| select to the dissertations of THAI
kind of minister. The preacher to-
day must enter the new era in the
spirit of the times. Prohibition Of
| clean Sunday amusements will bring
him no listeners. The secret lies in
the kind of message he is prepared
| to give.
WHY CHURCH-GOING DECLINES
And | did hear of one very fat
but fashionable woman who tound
il utterly impossible to negotiate the
unusually high step of a street car
and who finally solved her problem
| by sitting down on the platform and
| pNoting in, greatly to the diversion
OF the strap-hangers and smokers on
the rear end p" Beyond any
| question, there is direct connection
between these extreme and immoGesE
styles and the increasing prevalence
o. vice. The Rev. Dr.. Roach Stra,-
on, Pastor of Calvary Baptist
church. in a Sunday sermon.
Beyond any question, there is a
direct connection between the cheap
Stiffness of certain preachers and the
Increased prevalence of Sunday
golf. Harvey's Weekly.
May all the Sauls, then, be trans
formed into Pauls. and may the com
munity surely see the ADVANTAGE of
permitting the right kind of Sunday
afternoon moving picture shows.
At least ! expect Karl Allen 20
agree with me. In the old days
tthough | say as shouldn't | never
knowingly wrote anything that he
didn't heartily second.
Edna and | expect to get back 70
those 'berrie' trees about the mid
die of September; we expect to glee-
fully solicit large numbers Of those
Famous Tally-hos, buttons; We ex-
pect TO study nature at not less than
- miles per hour; we expect to wit
ness all the Perils of Pauline; and.
last but not least, we expect to at
tend church regularly This by way
OF proof, and in view of the forego-
ing. that l am not the least mite
prejudiced
And if the good editor and news
editor will permit. a talking har-
angue instead of a written one win
be your lot, Need l confess that
when this epistle was begun | had
mot the slightest idea of its ultimate
length? However, have consumed
w'st otherwise would have been Il
/ very tiresome Sunday morning. And
what better or softer adjective could
] use to describe your own day upon
receipt of this incoherant hatch of