Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church membership, the statisticians of the religious bodies often depend for their figures on the unchecked estimates of local pastors. As for church attendance, so confidently said to be increasing, no real statistics exist...
...what constitutes a church member. "For example, Jewish [groups] estimate the number of Jews in communities having congregations. The Eastern Orthodox churches include the persons in the cultural or nationality group served. Roman Catholics, and a few Protestant bodies, number all baptized persons, including children, in the membership. Most Protestant bodies include only so-called adults . . . persons usually beyond 13 years of age, as members. Yet in the Yearbook of American Churches, 1945, it was estimated that about 5,000,000 members of Protestant churches were under 13 years...
Phillips Brooks House is a prime example of an organization that has received too little from the drive. Paradoxically, while the scope and membership of Brooks House have expanded, its share of Combined Charities has sharply declined. The social service house began a new program with virtually no members in 1945, built to 400 in 1950, and rose to an all-time high last year of 825 from the College and another 125 from Radcliffe. Although Brooks House has extended its programs into prisons, mental hospitals, tutoring, and boys' clubs, its income has fallen from a high...
...Secondly, because the entire membership o Brook House "is composed of Harvard students," and thirdly, because PBH is at present in dire financial need which jeopardizes its philanthropic program to the point where activities will have to be drastically curtailed...
...know the Chinese Communist regime is dictatorial, inhumane, terroristic and slave-driving. But diplomatic recognition and membership in the United Nations cannot be viewed as rewards for democratic virtue...