Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MICE. SILENCE AND GLOOM. ("Mice, Silence and Gloom” is Dr. Edward Judson’s descriptive summaly of the •oeqpanta of most churches during all but a few hours each week). We dabbed together, wo raised the Three hours of worship: one hundred and , money, fifty built a temple to God. The church is a bolted room, We hired a preacher with doctrine sunny— Thar we, in worldly affairs so thrifty. For we have outgrown the rod. Give over to mice and gloom. And three hours weekly (in pleasant We’re not contented with two per cent, weather) As a worldly measure of gain, We use the family pew; We sometimes wonder: Is God content. We chafe a little at even this tether. Or is it the.gift of Cain? And that must certainly do. —Church Economist,