LIKE A MIGHTY ARMY
After the close of World War II a minister asked a returned GI to speak in his pulpit one Sunday. The veteran reluctantly consented to do so on the condition that the congregation sing “Like A Mighty Army Moves the Church of God” just before he was to speak. Here’s what he said: “Like a mighty army moves the church of God” — that might have been all right once, but the trouble now is that about ten million men know exactly how an army moves. And it doesn’t move in a way a lot of you folks do in church — or do not move. Suppose the army accepted the lame excuses that many of you think are good enough to serve as an alibi for not attending the church parade. Imagine this if you can: Reveille at seven o’clock. All squads on the parade ground. The sergeant barks out, “Count fours. One, two, three. Number four is missing.…
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