Religion: Feeble Churches

How strong, financially and socially, are the 210,000 churches of all denominations in the U. S.? What manner of men fill their pulpits? Of what stamp are the seminaries which turn out these keepers of souls year after year?

Questions like these were answered for Protestants last week in a four-volume report on "The Education of American Ministers" written by Dr. William Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary and Dr. Mark Arthur May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations. A three-year job, their survey was sponsored by the Conference of Theological Seminaries &...

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