Word: protestantitis
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We must seek everywhere for a balance in our teaching and our work. . . . Often we defeat ourselves not by saying a thing, but by saying it too much! Ere long we create a feverish audience that is utterly wearied of the sounding of one string upon the harp of God...
Drearily dishonest is the average U. S. Protestant minister. He pads his church membership list by about 25%. Of the names he keeps on it, 8% are those of dead people. On an average Sunday he preaches to a house 70% empty. On that Sunday nine out of every ten...
Mr. Babson's survey, based entirely on Congregational figures, shows that U. S. Protestant church attendance reached its peak in 1880, has since been "running downhill." In 1921 Protestant churches signed up 1,710,000 new members, in 1935 only 990,000. Although other church statisticians have arranged their...
*Since the Catholic Church claims only 20,500,000 of the U. S.'s 127,785,000 inhabitants as members, and since Protestant attendance is estimated at less than 14,000,000, indication is that only one citizen in four is a church-goer.
Bishop Adrian was undoubtedly chosen to build up Catholic schools and colleges in Tennessee, home of Protestant Vanderbilt and Sewanee (University of the South). Another North American College graduate, Dr. Adrian was long a faculty member and in 1932-35 vice president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport. A heavy...