Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1919 — FORD WILL BRING ’EM BACK. [ARTICLE]

FORD WILL BRING ’EM BACK.

The following appeared' a few days ago in the “State. Register,” of Springfield, Ill.: “Many are the stories of Henry Ford and- his popular automobile, but Hillsboro is relating what it calls the best of the season, and the' facts in the case are true. It happened in one of the leading churches of the city that the pastor took for the text of his sermon, “Better Church Attendance.’ ' ‘The pastor held that the automobile has taken more people away from the church than any other thing. He concluded with the exclamation: ‘The Ford car has taken more people to hell than any other thing that I can mention!’ Whereupon an old lady in the congregation began to clap her hands and moan, ‘Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!’ “What’s the matter, sister?” asked the pastor. “ ‘The Ford never went any place that it couldn’t make the round trip,, and I am sure that all those people in hell will be back,’ she answered. ‘So, praise the Lord.’ ”