The Holly chieftain., 1920-03-04
THE COMMUNITY
CHURCH COMING
Says DR.. Colby in Sunday
Sermon.
n REST WILL CONE UNDER
BAP1IS1S WILL COME OVER
Defiant Attitude Not in Conformity
With Spirit Of Churches Teach
INSTRUMENTATION Must Give
and Take II Christianity Functions


In view Of the recent agitation
of the Community Church idea
DIR. H. E. Colby. who filled the pull
pit at the Baptist church last
Sunday night for Pastor LeGrand,
took occasion to preach on the
subject Of the Community Church,
which he said was due to a request
on the part of number of mem
bers Of the church,
1t Is a matter of regret that linn
tied space does not permit of an
extended report of DIR. COlby's dis
course, since the topic is pertinent
at this time and people of all de-
nominations seem to be giving it
more or less consideration and
thought.
DR.. Colby started out with the
emphatic declaration that eventu-
ally the Professionals would be
amalgamsted into one big church,
and though he urged no exception
ally good reason against such CO.
alition he said that the time was
not now ripe for this change.
About the only point in the way
now, according to DR.. Colby's idea
was strife and differences which
would naturally arise between the
various denomipAtions in getting
together. He declared he and peO-
pie Of his age would not live to see
the merging Of the determinations,
but that 1t would come, surely. He
did not say that the Community
4 Church would not be wise, or help
full or economic, but that now was
not the Opp0rtune time.
Another point made by the doc
tor which is scarcely in conformity
with the real facts and conditions,
was the declaration that the Com
munity Church idea was being
fastered and advocated by those
of weak churches, organizations in
towns where the church has be-
come numerically and financially
impotent. whereas, according to
the Literary Digest, many of the
brighter minds of the country have
become interested in this Com
munity church movement, in ap-
probation of the manifest lack Of
not only church unity but denomi-
national inefficiency in meeting
the spiritual and religious needs Of
the masses of today.
The declaration Of DR.. Colby that
the Baptists would come "over"
when the other denominations
come under" having, Of course,
reference to baptism by emersion
ands prinkling, indicates not only
a hair-splitting problem but an
attitude of defiance which amounts
to barrier in the growth OF Chris
tianity and the function of religion.
The inference that the Baptist
way is the only way, and that
gregatiOnalists, Christians, Metho-
dists or Presbyterians, of course.
is the spirit that vitiates the
the growth of Christianity. Love
for humankind, the cornerstone of
the religious structure, involves
the spirit of give and take-conces-
siOn-without which there can be
no progress.
LIT. CODY clCeO no instances
where the Community Church
where it had been already adopted.
had been failure. He cited no
influence, moral or
strictly religious, where the great
cause of Christianity had been i'm
paired. Briefly about all there
was to his contention was that the
time was not opportune for this
change in religious growth which
now seems to be demanding
a solution by the earnest, think
ing people Of the country in which
we live II not the whole world. The
Is not for a change of
moral principles but for conditions
to growth and a fruition
OF benef1cient results to mankind.
Operation for Appendicitis.