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3. At what age did you unite with the Church ? 



A copy of his letter was sent to the general secretary of 

 each Young Men's Christian Association in the United States 

 and in Canada. 



Five hundred and ninety answers came back. Dr. Gulick 

 studied these carefully, put all answers of the same kind to- 



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11 



Ages 



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Number 9 4 9 12 37 32 52 46 59 47 60 48 47 34 15 11 4 

 AGE OF CONVERSION 



gether, made out tables of classified figures, and printed 

 them for the benefit of other investigators. He was as sur- 

 prised as any one at what he found. 



The tables showed that in the vast majority of cases the 

 one special choice which turned the lives of the men up- 

 ward instead of downward was made between the ages of 

 fourteen and twenty. Since such tables are even more inter- 

 esting to young people than to their elders, they are given 

 here in full. 



