. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . nfruitfulness of thechurch. On confession of faith, theaverage increase of church member-ship is but seven per cent. That is,by every one hundred members ofthe church, seven persons are wonto Christ in a whole year. Deductthose who come naturally throughthe nurture of the Christian homeand the Sunday school and you re- WILL IT PAY 265 duce that number by one-half. Thepitiful fact remains that, for every-one hundred church members in theland, not more than four persons arewon to Christ out of the world intwelve months. Is there not some-thing wro
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . nfruitfulness of thechurch. On confession of faith, theaverage increase of church member-ship is but seven per cent. That is,by every one hundred members ofthe church, seven persons are wonto Christ in a whole year. Deductthose who come naturally throughthe nurture of the Christian homeand the Sunday school and you re- WILL IT PAY 265 duce that number by one-half. Thepitiful fact remains that, for every-one hundred church members in theland, not more than four persons arewon to Christ out of the world intwelve months. Is there not some-thing wrong in a church having sucha record? Thirty-eight millions ofpeople in America never see the in-side of a church, and hundreds of thousands, whose names decoratechurch rolls, do nothing, give noth-ing, to save America, or to win soulsto Jesus Christ for years, perhapsnever. Will it pay to continue tolive thus? Do you dare to die so?Is not this fooling with heaven andfrivoling with hell? Will it pay tosave these souls? Will it pay to saveAmerica?. TYPICAL POLISH GROUP THINGS AS THEY ARE IN ALASKABy Rev. William BurnettVaides ALASKAS religion and relig-ious notions are, like every-thing else in Alaska, peculiarto itself. I have never met a manin this county who is not religious,after his own notion. But the strik-ing thing about it is that he has gotfar ahead of the old fashionedcreeds. The Bible is ruled out of thecourt, apparently for the followingreasons: First, he dont believe; second, hedont know who wrote it; third, theyare always changing it; fourth, itisnt true; fifth, he dont need it. Icannot account for the radicalchange that two or three years resi-dence in Alaska makes in the relig-ious ideas of both men and women,and that too, of men and womenwho, at home, were active membersof some church. It may partlybe accounted for by certain condi-tions that obtain here, and have atendency to test a mans personalreligion rather severely, (i) The want of a religious nucleus, stro
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