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...fact," Rev. Mumma adds, "a concern for organization would be detrimental to our aims...
...Congregationalists and Presbyterians the "ultimate goal is that people in the college should be able to discover the richness of their faith without being overly organized in religious institutions." Students, says Rev. Mumma, should avail themselves of the community and abolish the dichotomy between the religious and academic life. In the university, a student is often confronted with abstractions and with a number of alternatives; Rev. Mumma feels that the importance of religion is to help people make value judgments...
...last few years, the interest of Congregational Presbyterian students has been numerically smaller, but qualitatively larger, Rev. Mumma contends. During World War II many Americans found God in a fox-hole, and in the late forties church building and attendance increased abnormally. In the fifties, religion became for many a "social rather than a moral obligation." But today, it is no longer the "good" thing to do, and, as a result, Rev. Mumma believes the "inner rewards are now greater." This accounts for the rising social consciousness which is "in a sense a religious phenomena...
According to Rev. Mumma, roughly 15 percent of those students who indicated either a Congregationalist or Presbyterian affiliation on religious preference cards distributed at registration give an active commitment to their faith. Although he would of course like more students to work in PBH and would like a greater attendance at services if "interest is genuine," Rev. Mumma sees no specific problems. "I feel badly that we cannot say, 'Look, here is where we meet, and here is what we do.' I feel pressure both from the past and present to organize students into a congregation. But I think...
Like Rev. Mumma, Rev. Schneider does not favor organization, for in his view the church has too often been an irrelevant institution which has not addressed itself to the world. "The church is in frightful condition everyplace," he maintains. "What time has been spent, has been wasted to conform to contemporary culture...