The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-24
WHO SHALL HAVE THURSDAY?
WYE, the Church people say that WE, the
M community are not as careful as we might
Az he about keeninp OUR entertainments and

WYE the Church people say that WE, the
M community are not as careful as we might
~ be about keeping OUR entertainments and
things off of OUR night! Sounds bit mixed
but it really isn't. The point is that the clergy
and the church-going public are coming to feel
that the community (Which the whole of
us) might be just a little more thoughtful and
careful in reserving Thursday evening as the
mid-week church night and for chul oh functions
Some of the very modern modemists may
feel that humanity has outgrown its need fol
the mid-week prayer service. Some OF us who
are just kindergartners is this great search after
the spiritual, feel that, far from having out
grown it, we are just growing up to it and the
process is slow!
Whatever our belief may be, church tradition
and church custom has from time immemorial
set Thursday night apart for mid-week worship.
Of late years it seems to be more and more diff
ficult, in the press and stress of organization
meetings, committee meetings, entertainments
and what not, to reserve this one night for the
things of the Church and the harm this is doing
to the church is making the thoughtful ones ev
erywhere pause and consider. The Church is
asked to cooperate and does cooperate with ev
cry good thing that comes into the community.
Now there comes trend the other way and the
Church is inclined to ask that there be little
of this same consideration anG cooperation shown
to it and it's purposes.
1t is not much that the Church asks in this
matter and the thing that is asked by the
local Church is being asked by churches every.
where 1t is simply this MAY not" says the
Church "count on having Thursday evening set
apart as MY evening. May l not hope and ex-
pect that on this evening MY rights will be
considered and that promoters Of entertainments
officers of organizations and Boards, committee
men, schools and all others will leave ME this
one night. Then may call together my men,
bers and my friends for mid-week worship, for
social gatherings, or for the transaction OF my
business. With this in prospect l could cooper
ate easily and with real wisdom and helpfulness
in community enterprises, either social or civic,
on the other five evenings Of the week"
The Protestant clergy of Redwood Falls and
the layity are anxious to avoid conflicts They
are willing to go more than half way in so ar
ranging church affairs that practically every
other evening will be kept free from church calls.
1t will not be possible to do this in every instance,
but it will assuredly be done so far as is practic-
able, It would seem they perfectly reason
able in asking that, under this system of coopera-
ton, other factors of the community life give
Thursday evening a wide berth in making plans
for the week. The plan has no element of self
ishness in tiff we'll worked out it could not fail
to work to the benefit of all forces and factors.
Aside from the religious and spiritual urge such
a plan may have it is also one of mutual help
fulness and has real economic value in that it
would avoid conflicts which are sometimes fnan-
cialy disastrous.