In Swallow Tail Coat

Dr. W. B. Hinsdale, in his address beforv the Business Men's Class Sunday, extracts of whick were given yesterday, collated the following additional opinions on why people do not go to chnrch : The follovving is an interview with a prominent citizen, an attendant at one of the leadiug chnrches : "Answering yonr question, would give as a great factor, in my church at least, coinpetition in dress. I have set in church and heard the audible coniments of ■women upon the dress, cloak or headgear of another who . probably had on the best she could afford. The discipline in protestant churches is less than fornierly, and people neither live as circumspectly as formerly or require their children to be punctual or regular in religious bservance. A church properly coniucted in this city shonld have 1,000 attendants every Sunday. Laboring men and plainly dressed people can be goíten to the right kind of a church. People are sometimes too tired to atend church or to rig up theii" chilI ren for Sunday school. ÍS there ould be a half holiday in the middle 1 f the week for workiug people, wheu I ïey might have recreation, it svolnd I st thew, decrease Sabbath breaking m d increase church attendance. The f srease in chnrob. expenditures preI nts people in pinched circumstancës ■m j;oing to church, I have no tbt. Thê Crjdng need is for the -fashioned church service, where I iiwhide boots, overalls, suubonnets, PLalicos, any clothing that is clean, -would be tolerated. several times I have snbscribed money to lift a certain debt, and the debt is unpaid toi day, the money being spent for some new 'fangle. ' That kind of business Lyiïï keep down any organization. I l'iave at various times looked a bout Wvti church to see the class of people I -esent. seldom finding a laboring j I ïan, a mechanio or a working wol lan. I will frankly say our church Hoes not reach the rnasses. The audiHace is made np of tmiversity people, ■irchants, lawyers and women who Hge got the clothes. ' " Bbe following is from a university "-I iave feit either a Eiblical j fo. religiops duty to attend chnrch j Bervice and have feit that all of the Bhnrches -wre doing good work in the BForld, and therefore shotild be snpIsorted - tinless they did violence to ■ie golden rule - and especially those i ■pWing a liberal attitude in matters Ldoctrine and creed. I am also conHaiued to recognize the social wishes Biear relatives and friends in this Btter. The chureh as a social orBization should be of much good in ■Jworld as its aim is high and its Rftucnce is ■without a moral uplift. " I Another university man : "I think ■ie fault lies with the ministers. Very ■ten men are in the pulpit as profesHrnal men not becaust: they are 'callB' No one should be endorsed as a Biister, man or woman, who has not Llong tutilage, shown an adaptaB to the ministry. The riglit kind : ■jkrgyman can keep the laymen H and at work. The children BTO'trSïnfd to go to chureh. The Htch habit must be developed." Riother minister states chureh es Hbocoming less evangelistic and ■clnb-like. The old line oralizing does not reach anyB We must break away and ■ƒ with the affairs of the day. ■bt the magazines, daily papers, ■ons, bicycles, public parks, H lines and other numerous diBns keep people from church. In Baiifs the social settlement and Oe-to-house vork must be develn. Organization and co-operation pst be liad in order to induce a genBal religious awakening. ■ The followinfi letter is from anher clergyman : p'l. Formerly the pulpit was almost Ke exclusive source of religious inwjnaction, and far more than it is to■ay, was a source of general instrucmon. The press is undoubtedly a pcwerful rival of the pulpit in our limes - the daily, the weekly, the kuigaziiies and reviews are speaking i millions, and many people take ñr chvrcli at home. HTJjie vast opportunities afforded Hpr building and successLiness and professional enterBave claimed the attention of ■ml drawn off their interest ■e church and religious sub■ In the simpler, earlier days, Rrere more spiritnally-minded, Bisequently more devoted to the H and its services. ■Along with au ever ■ivity has developed a new view fthat it means to keep the BabBjjgpwadays men holcl more libHrand seek recreation f rom I work of the -week in ways ■ed to their tastes. Tens of Hs ponr out of the cities every Hir a short excursión, to ocftast part of the Sunday, and Lpt likely to find their way Ach. In earlier times wheii Suuday excursions were not Imown and would not have been tolerated, people stayed at honie and went to church, many of them jnst to have some place to go, but now there are so many attractions that, with the more liberal readings of the law, they take the people away f rom onr ohnivhes. " I have gathered the followiug frorn letters not given in fnll : "If Paul should come to Ann Arbor he would have a large tronk fnll of clothing. He would have a 'swallowtailed' coat for dress receptions, a business siiit íor the Business Men's Club, overalls for visiting the laborera tipon the street, or the hard-working, plain farmers. He would be, so far as consistent with good moráis, 'all things to all men'. If we wonld be as mercurial as that with discretion to match, church members would mnltiply. ' ' Another says : ' ' We are less superstitious than our ancestors . Once men,,who did not attend church, were called heathens ; now they are called Christian without belonging to any church.", Anothér: "There is more good reading now than formerly. It is as much worship for me to lie in a hammock on a Snnday [af ternoon and read a good article as to go to church." Anoher: "There can't be churches enough, especially in small places, to suit all religious tastes, so people stay away if they can't hear what they want. ' ' Again: "Church costs so much that many persons cannot contribute what their pride would demand, so they stay away altogether. "