El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-13
CHURCH, ONCE THOUGHT MASTER
NOW SERVANT OF ALL THE PEOPLE

BEFORE the war most Of US looked on church the
y little place around the corner where one went TO sing
hymns say prayers hear sermons CT to get married, burned
OF properly baptized Until Billy Sunday came along and
tore the epyrean with his CALCULATIONS the ortho-
dox Of believed that minister had business referring
70 anything that happened more recently than eighteen
hundred @ nineteen hundred years ago.
The times have changed Although the church has lost
of its sacredness for the genuine voary it has taken
a different meaning and i is emineHty proper It
should do than IL already has. Once upon
time the church the master Today it realizes that it
IS and should be the servant It is the and not the
end which, by the way Just what it intended to be-
The church that ezacts worship and does not give
service IN exchange IoT ms ieay mas no place N nc
modern world, regardless CT its denoplnatiou whether
the church be Jewish, Gentle Catholic Protestant, it
must be active force in the community It must not
be merely place where one can 60 and fnd out hoW 10
get heaven how to stay Of hades but it must
reach out and show the way to the former and how to
avoid the latter The church that succeeds Is the church
that gets down among the people It is institution
that do that without losing bit of its sanctity
And with the change in the necessary method Of
ing the public has come change IN the type Of the
churchs ministers The minister who would lead to
God today must be vastly different from his prototype
Not that minister OF any creed must snare the wees OF
his fellow men but he certainly share in their
Psences to the extent that he may sypathze The old
long faced style OF minister is passing and giving way 70
the alert, upright among The modern minister
knows @cussn word isn't going to send the
who says It TO eternal damnaon and he knows
that lot of piey not backed up by genuine godness
and charity is not going to get man into heaven
The world Of tomorrow is going to expect much Of its
survive The world Of tomorrow VIII expect its churches
TO bring the people together common ground to the
extent that understand each others needs Il Is
going foster social service Of the highest type. 1t is
going to help avoid evils by showing are better
off BY avoiding them and not by trying to oppose our
appetes IN the unreasOning common to many
rsfomers IN the past The church VIII be to Us en- our
social and religious life what government IS IN pot
oal and economic he-a thing be respected and loved
and submitted to without fear but yet something which
we ourselves can make what we VIII have It to be.
-Four members Of the United States supreme court are
past 70 eligible retirement under the constitution
But 70 isn't old it when the constitution was
drafted and the four judges resent the idea that they are
ready for the shelf.
Tom lobbyist to president" would make fitting title
for Of modern political life If senator Watson
Indiana, should be nominated by the Republicans and
win in the elsction-but he won't.
The coal strike Of this winter VIII be good joke next
summsr-to those Of Us who don't freeze to death.
Ordinary oil viii quiet the troubled waters but, to
certain extent oil is causing the trouble in Mexico
After all ones attitude toward almost anything de-
pends largely on the condition Of ones liver.
Garfield has quit but the miners are back on the Jobs
which helps some.
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And now Mexico says that radicals sping over
On her. Nobody loves a radical /