Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — The Church, Six Days Silent. [ARTICLE]

The Church, Six Days Silent.

They are gone and the gray sexton is just closing the portal. For six days more there will he no face of man in the pews and aisles, and galleries, nor a voice in the pulpit, nor music in the choir. Wlfis it worth while to rear this massive edifice, to be a desert in the heart of the town, and populous only for a few hours of each seventh day? Oh, but the church Is a symbol of religion. May its site, which was consecrated on the day the first tree was felled, be kept holy forever, as pot of solitude and peace, amid the trouble and vanity of our week-day world! There is a moral, and a religion, too, even In the silent Walls. And may the steeple still point heavenward, and be decked with the hallowed sunshine of the Sabbath morll!—%From Hawthorne’s “Sunday at Home.” ,