Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-25
SOciaLized Church Held
Key TO Social Problem
Ferns Case Furnishes Concrete Example IL
Support of SteLzLe's Doctrine.

the effect of an electric sA'ck when II
sang out:
at would be terrible state of affairs
if that were turned around to apply tC
men. What if women were not allowed
to talk with men with a past? l guess
there wouldn't be much conversation"
The laugh that followed scored a hi
for the wag of the class, middle-aged
unmarried wOman.A
mo class, that ~ not Christ's idea Of
a church. His church is all inclusive
a great human brotherhood"
T OUGHT TO
WELCOME ALL.
"The Master" continued the teacher
ASSOCIATED with all people, the good
bad and Indifferent. He said He came
to save the lost. His church ought to
have a welcome to all people, especially
the lost If it was HIS mission to
save them, then it is the mission of His
church to do so.
Love and fellowship are the only
means of doing this. The church should
not, therefore, try to ostracize any one
1t must reach all. It's failure to do SC
is but a proof of its inefflciency. Those
in our churches now who cannot or will
not recognize fellowship with the lost,
1870 years ago, and the Savior's denunci-
ations would have been against their
misconduct.
1.-THE Saviors church, If we may call
His helpers such, was not respectable.
There were no upper or lower classes
with Him. They were all brothers and
sisters of the same Father"
RECALLS ANXIOUS
MOTHERS VOICE.
All this come home with strong sig
nificance to one member of the class. She
thought of the anxious mother whose
voice was saying in the phone that came
to the office Of the police station:
DO You know where my daughter Is !
She did not come home last night"
This voice had called police head
quarters early and late with the same
question. It was the voice of a mother
whose indulgence had been rewarded by
the indifference, disObedience, ingratitude
Of a runaway daughter.
Yes. they knew at headquarters
where Fern was living. They remembered
the day three girls sat in city court at
the right Of the judges bench, fines
suspended so that the gi-ls Immediately
could become patients of the board OF
health at the city hospital.
They had been taken in raid on 8
rooming house known at police station as
the prize for midnight raiding parties.
Here Fern and her girl friends had
rented a two-room furnished apartment
MANY OTHERS LEAD
SIMILAR LIVES.
There were many other young girls
similarly Independent lives.
And they could be independent" be-
cause no set of rules in the front hall
intruded upon their personal liberty.
The only requirement Of the colored
ianitor was that they pay him the rent
promptly. He lived In the back yard
and to his shack 1t was necessary to go
when clean linen was needed. Easy
familiarity characterized the conversation
when the girl-tenants gathered there on
various errands.
No rent collector ever bothered: nc
elderly woman kept an eye on tenants;
no one complained Of late hours and
noisy gatherings in the rooms. Visitors
came and went at will. 1t was. all de-
lightfully bohemian. The word home
was a bitter mockery.
You are thinking, perhaps, that this
"jolnt'-pardon the word-opened on ma
alley. or that It was over a saloon or In
down town block.
LARGE CHURCH
ACROSS ALLEY.
! 1t was-and is-acrOss the alley from
one Of our largest down town churches
| If children play ed tennis in this church