Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-08-17

success are not calculated to inspire
the confidence and cooperation o
thinking people and the cause o
Christ drags in the dust and th'
Christian people of Mountain Home
will have to answer to God in the
Judgment day for sending their sons
and daughters out into the game OF
life without the moral strength tC
meet its temptations and problems. -
''No other business would stand
for the waste of money and talent
displayed by the churches and it is
crying shame that the business of
preparing manhood and womanhood
for life service should be crippled and
bankrupted by such unbusiness-like
methods"
At the conclusion of his address
Mr.. Blodgett introduced Lieutenant
Governor Chas. Baldridge, hardware
merchant of Parma who described in
very able and effective manner the
Parma Community church of which
he has been a member ever since it's
inception nineteen years ago, serving
as Sunday school superintendent
eighteen years of that time.
Mr.. Baldridge Impressed his hear
ers with his earnestness and his un-
qualified faith in Community church
program. Mountain Home people ap-
preciate that so busy a man would
leave his business and at his own ex-
pense render the community such
splendid service.
The speaker described in detail the
organization and workings of the
Parma church and the community
hall and urged the people of Noun
tain Home to unite in a similar move
ment which would mean so much to
the life of the people of the commun-
ity.
The Parma church and hall cost
s5O,0O0.OO and provides the religious
and social program of the town and
country.
The community hall is in opera
tion seven days in the week, open |
to all comers free of charge, with
its committee rooms for the grange,
business organizations, conventions,
and all social and business functions.
The plant also has rest rooms for
men, women and children, shower
baths, gymnasium, reading rooms,
game and recreation rooms.
The social program of the COM
is directed by the public
school and church working in unison
and the spirit of comradeship and CO.
operation permeates the entire life
If the community.
Twelve different denominations
ire represented in the Parma church
which is under the supervision of
he Presbyterian denomination, but
10 one thinks about or cares about
he denomination and the church is
always referred to as the community
hurch
Parma is a town of six or eight
hundred in a thrifty farming com
nunity and the church has a men,
'ership of over $50 and the Sunday
chool a similar membership. They
tave a mems bible class with over
hundred members and visitors from
fountain Home on recent hot Sun
ay morning were surprised to find
3 men in attendance at the mems
lass which is known as the Friend
y Mems" Bible class and is taught
y Mr.. R. H. Young who formerly
vas associated with Tom Blodgett
n Sunday school work in Wichita. |
IAN, where Mr.. Blodget had class I
nearly 500 men and from which e
prang the Mems Gospel Team move S
lent that spread all over the United t
tates. C
At the close of Mr.. Baldridge's adj P
ress Tom Blodgett made the an v
that he understood from a
sliable authority that the Congrega- I
onal church of this city were ex-
ecting to officially invite the other a
nominations to unite with them in Il
Community church program and v
ated that it was the proper step for o
lie Congregational church to take q
J it was the pioneer church in this e
eld and was the Christlike thing G
do and that the other churches G
ust in all fairness refrain from any u
MUST criticisms or accusations of g
If interest and give the matter very 81
'rious consideration and lay aside n
~ petty prejudice and get action ~
quickly as possible L
Favorable comments were heard on N
l sides as the large audience dis pi
'rsed and from the interest being u
ken it is well within the range of D.
that within a few months g
Home may have a Com es
unity organization that will unite Ell
e entire community in religious g
ogram- that will revolutionize the "a