Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — CHURCH TAKES HALF PAGE IN NEWSPAPER [ARTICLE]

CHURCH TAKES HALF PAGE IN NEWSPAPER

The Christian church of- Oxford has contracted for a half page in the Oxford Gazette for the period of one year. , The pastor, Rev. J. G. Smith announces that the church -is grateful for the space given to it in the past but prefers to pay for its publicity in the future. Their half-page is divided into various departments and the first edition treats on every phase of church work. In this way the church expects to reach many who otherwise do not attend and often this includes members. The church is continually trying to induce people to come and hear the gospel, why not take the church work to them? , The average country church is lucky if it has a hundred in attendance each Sunday. With three churches in a town this would make an attendance of 300, while the territory from which they draw numbers from 2,000 to 3,000 people. It probably costs SIO,OOO a year to run the churches of the average country town. For less than one tenth of this sum a parge and a half of Christion Truths and Christian Activities can be carried into 95 percent of the homes within a radius of five miles of any country town. Even Mohamet, when the mountains wouldn’t come to him, went to the mountain.