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 . Damascus, and large in Laytonsville, Clarksburg and Poto-mac. About 38% of the normal church congregation are men. (2) As an organized force: one of the most important forms of thechurchs service to the community is that which it renders throughits organizations. Diagram No. VII indicates the equipment of theProtestant churches in this respect. All but ten of the churches,it will be noticed, have Sunday-schools; 53 have womens organizationsof
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 . Damascus, and large in Laytonsville, Clarksburg and Poto-mac. About 38% of the normal church congregation are men. (2) As an organized force: one of the most important forms of thechurchs service to the community is that which it renders throughits organizations. Diagram No. VII indicates the equipment of theProtestant churches in this respect. All but ten of the churches,it will be noticed, have Sunday-schools; 53 have womens organizationsof some sort; 37 have Young Peoples organizations; five have organiza-tions for men. Twenty-six out of 86 churches have no organizationsexcept a Sunday-school. First let us consider the Sunday-schools. Seventy-seven is the total number of Protestant Sunday-schools inthe county. Fifty-eight of these are in session throughout the year; theremainder suspend operations for three months or more of each Sunday-school like the public day school has education for its object. (ne Ljhurch 05 an vJi ^Tqaniied r^c to orce- Prore^fa-nT Churches - White-. at Churchej- 76 6undau (Sc/ioo/j 53 A DIAGRAM NO. VII93 It differs from the latter only in its function, which is to teach religionand morahty. We have a right to expect the Sunday-school to performits special function as efiSiciently as the day school performs its comparison of the two at several points is interesting. The total membership of all Sunday-schools is 5,537, an average of72 to the school. Of this number approximately 3,600 are between theages of 5 and 20. The total white Protestant population between theseages is about 6,750:51% of this nuniber are enrolled in the public schools,46% in the Sunday-schools. The day schools, moreover, show a betteraverage attendance. The regular attendance here represents 35% ofthe total number of school age and of the enrollment. The attend-ance upon the Sunday-scho
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