Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1929 — Page 9

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INDIANAPOLIS is a city where 431,000 people live, some 184 miles from crime-ridden Chicago. There are $176,501,177 in the banks of Indianapolis, 54,245 children in the schools, 54,000 workers in the 780 factories—a great city and a growing city. Street after street of new houses, spread out in a constantly widening network of suburban sections. Some of the streets are rough, some are newly paved. But there is fresh air for the children. Homes are being paid for. It is a good place to live. * There is good and bad in Indianapolis. Men, women and children and restless, turbulent youth. An occasional crime stirs the city. But Indianapolis, with her Churches, is safe and ’ appy.

This page made possible by public spirited business and professional citizens mho are striving to make our city a cleaner and better one to live in.

A man who signs himself “an untired business man” writes in World’s Work: "I regard the Church as the most effective organization society has yet devised for promotion of altruism and morality. I believe that the world with which I am acquainted has been made a better place by the advent of Jesus Christ. “My experience has been that the men and women who call themselves Christians usually live selfrespecting lives. I have found* them honest, fair and considerate in their dealings. “And so I say that it is my duty.to do what I can to give vitality to an institution which makes its adherents good citizens, good husbands, good wives, good parents.”

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Without churches—crime would become a civic problem. The Church is the heart of the city and its best and oldest security. The city’s welfare is the Church’s concern. The Church is in Indianapolis, not to be minstered unto but to minister. . “Everybody talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it,’’ Mark Twain use to say. Thoughtful people are much concerned about present day social conditions, especially as they affect our youth, but talking about it is not going to get us very far. Every Indianapolis citizen should support some Church by attendance and participation in the social and welfare.activities. Only as we maintain the Church at a high point of efficiency can the Church carry on any phase of Church work.