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is an active membership. Many church rolls need pruning. But in 

 the lack of any more definite tests which could be applied it may be said 

 that something like 5% appear to have ceased their support of the church. 



(c) The Church's Equipment for Service 



The 86 Protestant- churches have 80 church buildings. These are of 

 all sorts, ranging from the large, many-roomed building equipped with 

 all modern conveniences to serve the community in manifold ways, down 

 to the little one-room structure, with bare interior, equipped with nothing 

 but a pulpit, some pews, a stove and a bell. Forty-four of these church 

 buildings are one-room. These and a considerable number of the others 

 were built with the one idea of the church as a place in which to hold a 

 preaching service. Hardly a fourth of the churches have rooms which 

 are well adapted for the use of their Sunday-schools. This statement 

 must be qualified. Many of the buildings are adequate for the needs 

 of the particular Sunday-schools which meet in them and according to 

 the conception of a Sunday-school which prevails in many churches. 

 But the modern Sunday-school as we conceive it requires more than a 



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