Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — Bev. C. W. Postill Favors Modern Ideas in Religion. [ARTICLE]

Bev. C. W. Postill Favors Modern Ideas in Religion.

’ Rev. Charles W. Postill, of Attica, a former Jasper county boy, who was the first president of the Epworth League of the Methodist church and who was commissioned by the local church to preach about twenty years ago, filled the pulpit at the church Tuesday evening. A very good house greeted him and it would have done every person in. Rensselaer good if they could have heard his sermon. He believes in the modernized notion of Christianity and don’t hesitate to say that' he believes that the Christian will be rewarded for what he does and not for what he professes. He said that if two maps of the world were made, one of the Christian world and one of the moral world they would cover the same territory and he made it strong that Christian charity and love in exercise are of much greater influence for good than long prayers without service. He believes in prayer, not merely words, but prayer that sets action to the sentiment and helps to bring every man nearer the Kingdom of Christ-

Rev. Postill said that if Satan came into his church and wanted to join he would take him in. He stated that he knew there were-hypocrites in the church but that they were therp for repairs and that it was a part of the work of the church to reformall its members and to bring them to a realization of the greater things of life. He compared the church to a garage. He said that he entered a garage one time and just inside the door was a fine automobile, while across from it was an old machine that had just had a headend collision. He asked why they did not throw the old machine out and thus Improve the appearance of the garage. He was told that the business of a garage was to repair machines and that the damaged machine represented a greater possibility than the new machine. “That is the way with the church,” he said, “it represents so much In its possibility to restore man to the position he should occupy” Rev. Postill savs that all are born into the Kingdom of Christ and it is the duty of those who have their keeping in charge to train them in the, proper way and to keep them from wandering from the . fold. He said he was not in favor of letting them out to participate in the sins of the world and then trying to get them back by revival meetings. “But if they are out, let us find them as quickly as we can and make the church and the Christian life contain so much of happiness that they will never want to wander away again.” Rev. Postill /believes in religion that seeks to ■ accomplish something and he has proven a great laetbr in interesting the men and boys in church work wherever he has been stationed. At Attica he is awakening the people by his progressive attitude and beginning this week ho w 5 have a special service for a week all for .boys. After a short sermon each evening the boys will be taken to the basement where boy life will be indulged in, the things that make boys grow and think and keep their minds active and pure. - Rev. Postill urges the life that discourages “sissy” religion and encourages labor and charity and love in bringing the wayward back to Christ’s kingdom. After a visit to his farm near Surrey this Wednesday morning, Rev. Postill took the 1:55 train en route to his home. Tonight'Rev. A. W. Wood, superintendent of the Lafayette district, will fill the pulpit at the M. E. church. Thursday night Dr. R. D. Utter, of Lafayette, will preach, and Friday night Rev. T. F. Drake, who was pas tor of the local church when the bric'c church was dedicated in 1889, will fill the pulpit. ——