The Missouri herald., 1922-07-21
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES.
From the Official Board of the Hayti
Methodist Church to the Citizens
Croatinu.

| OTeetlHS'
You would not want to live in
some OF the wild, remote places that
you know of, would you? Is that
not why you are living in Hayti?
Do you not reason about like this:
~ belong here. All my earthly pos
sessions, or the greater part of them
are here. There are good schools for
my children to attend. There are
good churches. My children hav:
the privilege of attending Sunday
school, and the teachers give them
great deal of time, and teach them
lessons that will be of great value to
them through all the meandering OF
their lives. We have good. clean
set OF merchants to do business
with Hayti has a good business.
like. honest set of city officials, and
as result a clean and safe manage
nent of business matters. The
moral surroundings of Havti are as
good as most towns, and better than
many.
Civic pride has & good, strong
hold on the people of Hayti. They
are on the upgrade. The CONNER
cial club is very active, assuring
healthy growth and team work
That means much to any worth
while community, We have the
leading fraternal societies-the Ma
sonic, the Eastern Star, Odd Fell
lows, w. o. W., NJ. w. A. and others.
whose teachings are strongly re-
ligious"
Now, saying all of that, what
would Hayti do without these?
Were it not for the churches and the
influence of church people, those
who strive for the upbuilding of the
human race, the State and the Ma
tion, there would be no good school
Iyystem for your children, there
would be numerous immoral people.
corrupt officials, hence despair and
unhappiness in the community. |
There would be no clean city gov
ernment, no interest in civic i'm
provement, and conditions of citizen
ship in such a community would be
bad. The strong influence by the
secret organizations of the elevation
and betterment of mankind would |
not be here. The influence Of the
church loving people is more re-
sponsible than anything else for
Hayti being the good town it is to
live in and rear your family. 1t is,
therefore. the duty of all people to
help support the churches. This is
Just as much a duty of non-membres
as it is members, for they derive
benefit from the community good.
If you are so unfortunate as to be
unable to pay money, you can attend
church and help with your influence.
The giving to the church should
never be considered an act of charity
1t is not 1t is duty. Boost. Do
all you can. You will get a lot of
good out of it. If you put nothing
in, you will get little or nothing out.
The world is very fond of giving us
back what we put into it. In other
words, we must SOW to reap, and we
generally reap what we SOW.
We believe there are great manv
poople who would like to help the
churches if they knew just who to
pay. We believe for this reason our
collection system has been wrong. In
the future our records are going to
be open for inspection at all times.
and will show just who pays and
how much. The non-member of the
church is going to have credit, the
same as members.
Miss Mamie Hearn is the official
collector and will collect once a
Aonth. Tell her just how much you
can pay and when to call for it. She
will call promptly at the time you
designate. You should be ready and
not put her to extra trouble.
We want this entire community
to become interested in church work
We want you to come to our services
and hear Bro. Culbertson. He is a
strong man in the work. He is do
ing good. The Hayti Methodist
church is strong church, but
should be stronger and would be if
all OF us would do our duty.
Let us from this date forward re-
solve to do our duty.
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Worship, II a. m. Sermon RE |
ligious Life of Early Christians"
Epworth League, p. IN.