Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1914 — War Brings People to Church. [ARTICLE]

War Brings People to Church.

Manchester. England.—Greatly increased attendance at church services is one of the marked effects of the war noted by Ranchester clergymen. One of them in a Manchester paper says: “It is surprising to see as large an attendance at a week night service as at a Sunday survice. It is the instinct of those left at home to find fellowship at such times. But the outstanding factor is that the war is bringing us as a nation into the pres ence of the realities of life and deatV