Declining Sunday-School Attendance

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 45.

Declining Sunday-School Attendance

As shown by the "Church Year Book" there is a marked falling off in Sunday-school attendance in England. It is not only in the Established Church, but also in the Wesleyan and Calvinistic Churches that the decline is manifest. This, too, while the population of Great Britain shows an increase at the rate of 300,000 a year. Some of those who are most deeply concerned over the matter think the trouble lies in the classification along the line of the social status. Of course anything that shows a "respect of persons" is not Christian, and can not expect to succeed in really Christian work, whether it be in England, America, or in any other country.