. The week day church school; a historical sketch, brief analysis, and attempted evaluation of the organized efforts to furnish week day religious instruction to pupils of elementary and high school age in the United States. hildren and youth are receiving any religiousinstruction, worthy of the name. In our country, there isa vast army of children and youth growing up in spiritualilliteracy. Some investigators have estimated the numberof them as high as twenty-seven millions. These youngpeople, grown to maturity, without the development oftheir God-given religious faculties, go on to swell th
. The week day church school; a historical sketch, brief analysis, and attempted evaluation of the organized efforts to furnish week day religious instruction to pupils of elementary and high school age in the United States. hildren and youth are receiving any religiousinstruction, worthy of the name. In our country, there isa vast army of children and youth growing up in spiritualilliteracy. Some investigators have estimated the numberof them as high as twenty-seven millions. These youngpeople, grown to maturity, without the development oftheir God-given religious faculties, go on to swell the ranksof another vast army fifty-eight millions strong, the armyof Americas unchurched population. The most beautiful INADEQUACY OF THE CUSTOMARY AGENCIES 61 and wonderful thing in the world is the unfolding life of achild in its physical, intellectual, and spiritual most sadly tragic thing, in the world, is for a humanbeing to be born, to live, and to die without ever havingbrought to fruition more than an infinitesimal part of theinherent soul capacities with which the Creator hadendowed the living spirit within. In multiplied millions of Chart No. 7 How SlWDAY SeffGOLsAsE REAeblBftTtmR CoiSTITVEKCY. 69m LjVxiegoX ^-m K toW*\w $*«£««* S***0* souls that tragedy is going steadily on because of the factthat unfolding lives are spiritually neglected. A more detailed study of the same survey is shown inChart No. 7 above. It was desired to know how thedifferent denominations were meeting their responsibilitiesin the matter of reaching with their educational programsthe children and youth who were dependent on them forreligious nurture. The two lines following the name of each 6% THE WEEK DAY CHURCH SCHOOL denomination, represent all the children and youth fronithree years of age to twenty-two years of age who aremembers of families belonging to that denomination ormembers of families who say they prefer that denomina-tion. The upper line represents the per cent
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