Future Citizens 



(White) 



of Gibson County, Tenn. 



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NOT IN SUNDAY SCHOOL 



40% 



IN SUNDAY SCHOOL 



8545 



are now of school age 



3400 



are enrolled in Sunday School 



5195 



are not Enrolled in Sunday School 



Is the Church making the 

 most of its opportunity? 



CHART VI. 



thing for a church, and it a very serious thing for all churches, to fail 

 to interest the men. Men are not any more wicked than women and true 

 religion has just as much hold on a man as on a woman. But the men 

 have a harder strain upon them in supporting the family. They have 

 more things to contend with outside the home. The kind of religion 

 that interests a man is religion that helps him to be a good farmer, a good 

 citizen, a good man among men. He has to use his religion the same 

 week. He cannot afiford a religion that must be kept in storage for use 

 in another place or another world. He is not a dreamer. He has to be 

 practical. 



We suggest two lines of interest for country churches. Both of these 



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