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days, through sacrifice and hardship, built that house and dedicated 

 it to God and that was the church where that man as a boy first 

 learned of the things of God in the realm of the spiritual and 

 eternal. This was not in Japan or in the islands of the sea, but 

 it was here in Christian America. If the same ratio holds through- 

 out the state with the exception of Chicago, as in the places I 

 visited, there would be 1,600 vacant and abandoned churches in 

 Illinois. We have found the same in Missouri. Here is the way 

 the people go to church in the forty-four communities. We will 

 just imagine those old churches are all living again and they are all 

 equal in power to the entire 225 churches. If that were true each 

 church would have 511 people to reach; this would be an average 

 parish. This (pointing to chart), that is in blue represents the 

 church membership. The unshaded portion represents the people 

 who are not going to the house of God, who are not in harmony 

 with the spirit of the church. This diagonal crossed section here 

 represents those who attend. Notice that there is a loss here ; quite 

 a good many people who belong to church do not attend church with 

 any regularity. 



Here is a chart (refers to another chart) that will reach you 

 Missouri people. Here we have an interesting chart prepared by 

 our investigator as to the costs and incomes in your own State. 

 Here are three hundred and seventy families that were canvassed 

 with the idea of showing the expenditures of the family. This 

 long black strip that goes across the chart represents $771 a year 

 that each one of these families spends upon themselves for the 

 house, clothes, shelter, food, entertainment and other needs of life. 

 This little patch here — can you see it? — represents in the same pro- 

 portion the amount of money that those same people pay on their 

 school, $14 per family. This small line here represents the amount 

 of money that they expend in the improvement of their roads; it 

 amounts to $6. Can you see that little bit of a line? I doubt if 

 some of you can see it from where you are. This is the place 

 where you have to exercise faith, and faith "is the evidence of 

 things not seen." You cannot see it there, a little line that just 

 represents what these people that spend so much on themselves 

 spend on the church; it represents $3. I had to cut off about six 

 inches of this big strip in order that you could see this last one 

 at all. Here is a map of a section over in the eastern part of the 

 State, and each one of these dots represents a church, here in Mis- 



