Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1918 — SUNDAY WORK ON THE FARM NOW PERMISSIBLE [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY WORK ON THE FARM NOW PERMISSIBLE

It is quite right and pioper to do farm work on Sunday if that Sunday work is necessary to produce food crops to help whip Germany. That is the attitude of the rural churches of Indiana, expressed recently in conference at Purdue University. The reason given, for this position was the conviction of Indiana rural ministers that Germany is the worst enemy of civilization, and if every church of civilization —of all religion everywhere, that is worthy the name of religion; that the victory of the barbarous Huns would be literally the victory of the devil and the triumph of that pagan monstrosity created by the Kaiser’s savage and sacreligious mind and called by him “the good old German gott;” in short, that every’ church in America is fighting for its existence, just as every other component of civilization is fighting for its existence, and that if Sunday work in saving crops will help overthrow that bestial menace it becomes —veritably a .churchly work to do. This conference of the rural churches of Indiana was held at Purdue University under the auspices of the department of agricultural extension. BUY SAVINGS STAMPS TODAY.