World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . city churchmust have an active and virile program toreach the city people. FLUX OF CITY POPULATION IN THE panorama of city life is the constantmoving of city people from apartment toapartment. The average church in the citywitnesses a procession of such new congregations must be gottentogether every few years. Family churchesare a rarity in the city. One pastor reportsover 8,000 changes in membership in a thirteen-year pastorate. In 1910 there were 20,255,555 families
World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . city churchmust have an active and virile program toreach the city people. FLUX OF CITY POPULATION IN THE panorama of city life is the constantmoving of city people from apartment toapartment. The average church in the citywitnesses a procession of such new congregations must be gottentogether every few years. Family churchesare a rarity in the city. One pastor reportsover 8,000 changes in membership in a thirteen-year pastorate. In 1910 there were 20,255,555 families in theUnited States, 9,499,765 of which were inthe cities, and 10,755,790 of which lived in ruraldistricts. In the cities there were persons toa dwelling, and in the country Of all the families in the United States in 1910, per cent, occupied rented homes and cent, occupied owned homes; per cent,of those living in farm houses owned them,while of those living in other homes percent, owned and per cent, rented. HOME OWNERSHIP AND TENANTRYIN LARGE CITIES U. S. Census, 1910. ;N 39 OF THE 50 CITIES OF 100,000 POPULATION. THREE-FIFTHSOF THE HOMES ARE RENTED HOME MISSIONS: The Cities 35 In New York City per cent, of all thehomes were rented, but in the Borough ofManhattan very nearly all the homes, percent, were rented. There are five cities inwhich the rented homes constituted more thanfour-fifths of all the homes in 1910: New York,Boston, Fall River, Cambridge and Newark,and the percentage was nearly as large in JerseyCity and Providence. WOMEN IN THE CITY CHURCH CITIES contain a larger proportion ofwomen than does the rest of the there exists a considerable pre-dominance of one sex over the other in point ofnumbers there is less prospect of a well-orderedsocial life. In 1910 throughout the entire country therewere 106 males to every 100 females; the malesoutnumbering the females by 2,692,288. Intwenty-two of the fifty
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