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T* .^>V PAGE EIGHT: THE CLfaflGN CHRONld^ CLPfTOIfl 8. C. \ y THUESDAY. SEPTEAIBER 2. 1937 / CHURCH AHENDANCE NOW DECREASING, SAYS BABSON Joanna Mill Nevrs l*rotestant Population Is Show ing: Increase In United States. mmai OSlPOIli B/tfPX SATt/RBay S£pr.4'ji Osfiyfot/R Btfy/^6' parxitfr/ 2>0Afri>eMy £t?M£/X romy^ ByyBmui OSSPiRR, PRiaieovPA 9. • f- *' ■ • ■ .‘r P/Ocf^ifJ^S If mu cmc£/smPE ClASSifiEP pnoes POP pimp PSepc4R 4PSf ' By Rofcer W. BabMm ^abffon Park, Mass.—Durintf recent weeka I have read several editorials L^conirratulatihjf our churches on their proKre,«<s durinjic these perilous times. 1 am loathe to discouraffe those who have awept^ theserpblly Anna re port.**; but I do believe many of my resrular readers will be interested in my conclusions: 1. The so-called “church member ship” figures published annually by the Christian Herald and broadcast by the press associations are incor rect. They contain hot only the names of millions who have repudiated the f'lurch which they joined in their youth—byt alsd millions w'hb are dead i and buried physically, j 2. Prote.stant church attendance has I iieen falling off for many years. This j may not show by recent statistics on church attendance at theSunday morning servjce; but in many church es atti'iidance aL-lhia. Sunday, service- has lM*en kept only by omitting the mid-week and evening services, and by closing down in summer-time. A record of the 'number ed- ProUoitants legislation or even edocation. American Magazine does no^ even realise this, as shown by th,eir recent article on the subject We must be “bom again.” The hearts of people nlTust be changed in order for any social or any other - GoXdviHe, Aug. 27.—Miss Mary Co- Jeer of Pelzer, U visiting her sister, Mrs. Eidward Kay. Mrs. Jack Hunnicutt and children. James Rhodes and Horace Black, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy McDowell 'in Laurens. Mrs. J. L.”Mc€ravey and children system to succeed. This is a spiritual problem. Here i.s where America again j of Chester, are spending the week needs the churches, family prayers, 1 with iMr. and Mrs. E. L Thomas. .Sunday ohsf^ance, Bible ^j.udy.'^and|.^...Mrjt.yr. Br ghemll and son. Tommy, left la»t Wedne.viay for their home the Ten Commandments. Therefore, when we criticise the, church and note how it i.s declining in behavior and in Tampa, ETa., after spending_the ing-a few days with his mother and aunt, Mrs. Beulah Addison and Mrs. White, at Joanna-~ln{i. Mr. and Mrs. J. C..^ruber have the' sympathy of their friends in the death' tended the Opportunity school for the past four weeks. Leave For School Mis.s Ruby Lee Harrelson and Miss of their infant* daughter on August Xaomi Hall left Sunday for Spartan lIRh. Birth AnnounceHient Mr. and Mrs. EXoy Caldwell an- burg to enroll as students in the Tex tile Industrial institute. Miss Harrel-* son will be in the hi^rh school de-' nomice th» .rriv.) of , daughter on P*'*'"™*- «■" »“! ‘h' .Monday, August 23. |fre.hmen class of the junior college. 7 influence, we must not forget that the world still needs it. The_church continues to, be the basic agency through which civilization will be .saved. The world is still ruled by * ^ rm ^ 4 W _ a W ^ W a ^ icriiiiifa ratnrr i iirurw: —*■ summer’with Mrs. White and Mrs. Fortune Is Given Beulah Addison at Joanna Inn. .Mr. and Mrs. Ercle Bro'wn and sons visited relatives in Roy.ston, Ga., Sun- day. ■ t- Little M iss E-rances JlcElveen has returned to her home in Great Falls Handkerchief Shower Miss Margaret Sample was remind- ed of the fact that she had passed another mile.stone when the Girls’ club surpri.sed her with a handkerchief shower on her birthday Tue.«Hay evening. Party for Schbol Girls .Mrs. Maude Bridges entertained .Saturday evening with a party for Miss Freda Suimners and Mis* Ruby . ic . . , Harrelson who are leaving to en- after sending a few weeks with her Ler school at Textile Industrial insti- sl.ster, Mrs. B. L. Saxon. Itute in Spartanburg. c” pPP***'" »f G'-«"villl',j After a pleasaut evening of conver. lo -Mellon rundr*p'“"‘ »Je* (lay* lajt »eek with her .contests, ’»i.ler,.Mra. Jame.. f.va^ , !cake were served. .Marvin Webb of Eiillsville, ' Va.; ice cream and Charitable and F^ducational Ac tivities To Be Carried On With Estate of FFhahcier. '■ •'* 2. entering the churche.s during a year show.s a constant falling off. This decline is taking place despite the fact that our Protestant population is increasing each year. A\, Sunday .school attendance is also falling off. The CongregationalChris tian^ churches of which I am a mod erator Imvc hud a net loss of over l.’iO,o(M) Sunday school scholars since 1U2.’). At fir.st 1 a.s.sumed this lo he due to a .*«*rious droji in the birth rate among us indifferent Protestr ants; but .study shows that the de cline is primarily among those of ^igli school age and adults. The young children are still being sent to Sun day school to give fathers a chance to read the Sunday pajier! I have attempted to a see rta hr the le.ason for this collapse of Protestant ism, Upon visiting the national head- (piaiter.s of different denominations, the .secretaries di.sfiiite my .conclu sions. When int<*rviewing parent.s, they blame it onto the |•r^‘achers, the will., latter in turn hlame it onto the yoimg people and the schools. The only fact all groups .seem agreed upon it that “young people are more intelligent and iiKiuiring today; they do not ac cept as readily what their grandpar ents did.” Yet statistics show that the liberal churches—such as the Unita rian —■ have even greater troubh* in holding t^eir young people than do Pitt.sburgh, .Aug. 2H. — Andrew W. •Mellon’.s great fortune will be devot- e<l to oharitalilc* and eilucational pur- TohTghf p<)s«>s~ Tl_ W^s shortly’ after the funeraP of the 82- ycar-old fina^ci'er who died Thursday night. His estate went to the A. VV. M«l- !on e<lu<'ationaI and charitable fund, which was created in December of 19:50. .Mellon made no bequests tu hi» children, it was explained, because they “nlri'ady had' been ade<iuately provided for.” Th»* will set aside $IH0,0(MI which •Mellon direeteil'he divided among less than a dozen of his jiersonal employ ees in “appreciation for their loyalty] with-Rev. and The honor gue.sits were presented a I box of useful and lovely gifts. sp<*nt the week-end .Vfrs. I. H. Webb. -Mr:-and iW rs. Barnes-"Evans and^ Return“Fr<^ Scltb<^ sons ~ spent .Sunday at the Beach .Mi.sses Nell Hamm, Dori.s Clark, Springs camp meeting. land Jane Crawford have returned '.Mr.s. W. A. .Moorhead, .Mrs. Bell#! from Clem.son college, where they at- Crawford, .Mrs. J. El. Hamm and .Mrs, NOTICE Why not keep your money at home by giving your magazine subscrip tions to— -=m-:-IT-— r.- ■ JAMES W. CALDWELL Call 38 out vmt JAMES W. CALDWELL Phone 3^ ercise.s oFth^'Opportunity school at and efficiency.” .■\'<ide from that bequest, only the effects of his I’ittshurgh residence were withhj'ld from charity and edir^ cation. The announcement was made by Donald O. .Shepard, .M«*lIon’s personal i aWiirney, one of th«* surviving trus tees of the .Mellon eilucational and charitable trust, and an <>x«'Cutor of j Clem.son cnl^ege last E’riday evenin_ •Mrv .ao.d ..Mrs. Dickey Home and | •Vlrs. Pittman Ivookadoo ami daughter, ! Barbara, of Fort .Mill, spent Saturday with .Mr. and .Mrs. J. I). O’Dell. Mrs. Lookasioo and daughter are spending the wdek with Mr*. Itoy Templeton. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Dillard and chil(ln*n, Kay. Joe. .Mary and Sylvia, sfient Sunday with .Mr. and .Mrs. J. I). O’fteH., Miss Elthel Trotter oL..Saluda, is siM-mlyig the week with .Miss VictoVia •Mur rah. . Mrs. .1. L. Finney. Henry and Kath erine hinney .sp«>nt Tuesday with .Mrs. •1. B. Smith in Whitmrre. Tom Addi.son of Rink Hill, is -jiend- Dust Is High! Buy*^UALlTY COAL from us and avoid DUST,and SLACK. ‘‘\ot a pint of dust in a ton” of our coal. Your neighbor buys from us—a.sk him about the quality. C-W S GUANO COMPANY Phone 62 4 - * '!• :if. .Shepard said that properties of th'* estate w«*re of such .varied character that it would he im[)o.««vihle tO' make any estimate of its .size but that it, was “extremely largi*.” .Some guesses have la-en that the estate might ex ceed $2<KI.(KI0,0(»0. .Shepard revealed that a repoi't that .Mellon had given over $70,(100,(100 to education and chantahh* uses during the fundamentalists. .So creed i.s not s<‘ven y«‘ars was a “consiil- the real reason. Determined to find the'eau'^e, I <le- voted the month of .May, 1937,-to vis iting 20 prominent Protestant colleg es, most of which were started many years ago by ministers and earnest church people. To my great surprise, the.se colleges were having their troubles also. Attendance at chapel has fallen off tremendously and there is an indifference toward religious instruction. Although the colleges of the middle West have a more reli gious atmosphere than most -Ne'wr England colleges, all educational in stitutions are losing control of their young people. Unlike the denominational secreta ries, ami the preachers an<l parenta. erahle undiTest.mate.” He declined tu attempt to estimate the total of .Mr. Mellon’s bt*nyfac-1 tions iluring his lifetime except to .say | that it had Ix'en “huge.” The earthly remains of (he S2-yeaT-1 old .statesman, philanthropist ami j captain of interests worth billions, j were laiil to rest in an ivy-shrouded vault at Alleghany cemetery while a i mourning family group and many in timate friends stCiod by. .Melloms body: was placed near that of his brother.* Richard TL, •who^jTed in T9;5;5. | .No sermon eulogized the life of 1 these young people gave me a defi- .Mellon when .services were held over his lH>dy at Fast Lib<*rty Presbyterian church. In accordance with his wishe-s, the ceremonies were made as simple nite reason for their lack fo interest as possible. ~ I The .soft strains of organ music, * in their churches. They stateil kindly „]jj Presbyterian hymns, ‘two, and diplomatically that we church goers appear to them to he a group of hypocritsi They cannot connect our'jpjhyj^, brief prayers, and a few lines of scriptim* comprised the last public mode of living and metho<ls of doing business with the teachings of Jesus whom we claim to follow.' They do not understand how wo can atteml church, sing the hymns, and make the prayers whii’h we do on Sundays, and then act as we do the other six days of the week. ,As a result of this inconsisten cy on our part, they ask: “What use i.s the church?”' The casket, molded bronze, rested, upon a flower-banked dais. Countless j floral remembrances of virtually ev-! ery known bloom, scented the spa-1 cious church. * One of the big baskets of flowers was from President Roosevelt.^ Members of the immeiliate family sat just b<‘Iow the dais. His son, Paul,! ^ , was seen brushing away a tear; his' The troubles from which David K. El. Bruce,! churches are suffering are .due- to the,^,^, heasnly veiled and clothed in! black. I fact that Prote.stant young people are “getting their eyes of)en” and are lie- ginning tc think for them.selves. Fur thermore, the day is Coming when Catholic young people will reach the same stage. In fact, the Catholic church—probably has its troubles ahead so that they nee<I do no 'brag ging now. Young people insist that for the church to interest them, we laymen must be better men, Ixiter fimployers and workmen^ bt*tter par ents and neighbors than tho.se who do not go to church. In short, we lay men must take our religion seriously and pay the price if the church is to continue to grow. My . answer to these criticisms is that we laymen are living and doing busines.s in a competitive world. We can lie a little more generous than the non-churchman; but if we really follow Jesus we would be like the poor and helpless disciples of His day. To DISEASE ADDS - TO WAR PERIL (Continued from page one) Hongkew during air raids, artillery bodies of civilian victims killed in bombardments and machine gunning. Sanitary officers of the itemational settlement, ■^•orking feveri.'*hly to pro tect the foreign poputation of thlsT city, .said they were hampered in-their work because Jajianese military forc e's insisttnl on closing certain area-s, where bodies remain to be burietl, to forestall kwting and the n'tum of C hinese soldiers. . Japanese clean-up squa«is mean while dispo.sed of many bo<lies by sat urating them with gasoline and set ting them afire. E’oi'eign and municipal authorities this the.se students almost unanimous-1 forces to guard against,disease, ly retorte<l: “Then why not try to! Nanking, Generalissimo Chiang change the prevailing economic sys-* ^®'‘*hek, premier and supreme army tern? If you cannot worship. both Ih** central, Chinese (Jod and mammon under the present 1 urge*! intervention of system of industi*ialism, capitalism, i powers to halt the hostilities, and nationalism, you can at least take ! sides with those who are trying to change the system.” j THE DIGEST Meekly It, of course, is true that our Combining the Uterary Digest with churches must cease being only social!the Review of Reviews. $4.00 year. .Special offer—20 weeks for $1.00. See or call— clubs and we laymen must be known by a stronger character and good work.s. Young people and all other people must realize, however, that men can not ibe reform^ by mere JAMES W. CALDMXLL 1 Phone 38 We Have a Complete Supply... Send Your Children Here - For Their Needs "b- ■ik We are ready to serve the school chilrlren’s and teachers’ wants with everything for the class room except textbooks. We have a com plete assortment of all school supplies needed, from the small tot to the college student. 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