(e) The Church's Service to the Community 



(1) As a preaching centre: fifty churches have preaching service e very- 

 Sunday; 41 have service every other Sunday; 4 have service every fourth 

 Sunday. That is to say, this is the arrangement when they have service. 

 At the present time, there are 7 churches which have no service and 

 several others in which the service is not regular. 



The average aggregate attendance at the Protestant Churches for a 

 single service is about 7,200. On any given Sunday there are present 

 in all the churches holding service on that day an average of 4,400 peo- 

 ple, or 13.4% of the entire population. Each Sunday sees 22% of the 

 Protestant population in the churches. While there is probably only 

 a small percent, of the population who do not attend church at all, there 

 is a comparatively large percent, who will not attend regularly. This 

 would vary somewhat in the different districts; it would be small in 

 Olney and Damascus, and large in Laytonsville, Clarksburg and Poto- 

 mac. About 38% of the normal church congregation are men. 



(2) As an organized force: one of the most important forms of the 

 church's service to the community is that which it renders through 

 its organizations. Diagram No. VII indicates the equipment of the 

 Protestant churches in this respect. All but ten of the churches, 

 it will be noticed, have Sunday-schools; 53 have women's organizations 

 of some sort; 37 have Young People's organizations; five have organiza- 

 tions for men. Twenty-six out of 86 churches have no organizations 

 except a Sunday-school. First let us consider the Sunday-schools. 



Seventy-seven is the total number of Protestant Sunday-schools in 

 the county. Fifty-eight of these are in session throughout the year; the 

 remainder suspend operations for three months or more of each year. 

 The Sunday-school like the public day school has education for its object. 



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