WORSHIPPING GOD
CHURCH OR GREEN FIELDS. The oft-repeated statement that a man can worship God in the green fields under the dome of heaven just as well as he can worship in church is no doubt profoundly true, writes “Commentator” in the “Liverpool Post.” Only let it be honestly admitted that very few of those who assert this do what it says. I am quite convinced that only a negligible proportion of those who spend Sunday golfing or tramping or motoring, set out on their day's pleasure with any intention to worship God, or any desire to do so, and that they return home in the evening without having had a single thought of eternal things all day long. Some of the worship of God in church may be insincere, but the degree of insincerity is inconsiderable, compared with that of those who delude themselves into thinking that a pleasant Sunday afternoon on the golf links or in a comfortable car is an act of worship, or induces a worshipful spirit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1939, Page 3
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