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Besides being a famed statistician, Roger Ward Babson is a pious Congregationalist who presents a Bible to every new employe in his organization at Wellesley Hills, Mass. He wrote Religion and Business and numerous other books on similar subjects. Last week in South Hadley, Mass. 1,500 Congregationalists and Christians at the biennial meeting of the General Council of their now united Church unanimously elected Statistician Babson their moderator for the next two years. In so doing they not only approved a growing Congregational-Christian feeling toward more lay control of the Church, but drafted for full service a wiry...
...chairman of his Church's commission on Church attendance, a pioneer in investigating the simple matter of how many pews are filled on Sunday, Roger Babson has reached the conclusion that...
...Kieffer; that these show an increase for all U. S. religious bodies of 670,801 members in 1935, or 1.08% as compared with the total U. S. population gain of .71%; that according to Dr. Kieffer "this refutes the statement often made that the Church is declining." Nonetheless Statistician Babson believes that people in general and Congregational-Christians in particular stay away from church, and last week during the South Hadley de liberations, which were broadly planned to focus on "The Effective Church," he arose with some ready ideas on the matter...
Such facts were reported in Manhattan last week to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. They were based on a survey of 1,000 Congregational & Christian Churches made by a Commission on Church Attendance headed by that famed and pious statistician, Roger Ward Babson. Bullish on U. S. domestic economy, Statistician Babson is decidedly bearish on the state of U. S. religion...
...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 figures to indicate that total U. S. church membership keeps abreast of the increase in U. S. population, Roger Babson declares that while 12% of the population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman...