The Church in a Small City

The results of this study would indicate that churches in small cities show more vitality than those in rural districts and are in some ways healthier than those in large cities, though interest in manifested more in church attendance than in church membership. Sunday schools still attract a good-sized membership taken altogether, but the larger churches admit a definite falling-off of interest in them. In general, financial support of churches is good. Several denominations are raising more money than ever before. Churches which are conservative in belief seem to have a more loyal membership, including the young people, than the liberal churches; but their smaller size may partially explain this. The liberal churches find their chief problem is holding the interest of the young people; and the larger churches are evidently carrying too many inactive members on their lists

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