A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . ence of any organized effort to get and holdthe young people and the men. The church is here neglecting not onlyan effective method of religious work but also an opportunity to teachmen the needed lesson of cooperation in all their affairs by helping themto practice it in their church life. (3) As a Social Centre: Unfortunately there is but little to be saidunder this caption and it is one of those topics in connection with whicha lack of mate
A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . ence of any organized effort to get and holdthe young people and the men. The church is here neglecting not onlyan effective method of religious work but also an opportunity to teachmen the needed lesson of cooperation in all their affairs by helping themto practice it in their church life. (3) As a Social Centre: Unfortunately there is but little to be saidunder this caption and it is one of those topics in connection with whicha lack of material is in itself the gravest indictment. The truth of thematter is that the church as a whole is making but very little effort toserve the community as a social centre. Not even the church feelsitself obligated to furnish recreation and social-life facilities for theirown sake. The greater part of the churchs social activities are under-taken for the sake of the money to be raised by them. We have spokenbefore of the festive Strawberry and the Oyster, first aids to the their ministrations have been mentioned and the annual picnic, 95. ONE OF THE BEST CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY which we discussed in another connection, recalled, our list is nearlyexhausted. Not 15% of the churches have any other sort of socialactivity. Of course churches vary, but in general their social life is atrather a low ebb. (f) The Communitys Service to the Church The aggregate annual budget for all Protestant churches is $88, and three-tenths cents of each dollar of the churchs moneyis for the ministers salary. The total amoimt expended in salaries peryear is $31,247, and the average per minister is $842, the maximum being$1,500 and the minimum $250. Each church expends an average of$381 on its minister (for 25 churches in two denominations with 16ministers the average is much higher; these two denominations pay anaverage salary of $1,050: each church having as its average expend
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