Religion: Faith Without Works

During the worst days of London's blitz a church hung out a sign: IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM.

More definite evidence of how compellingly the war has urged the British to their knees reached the U.S. last week. It is a two-year survey, Religion and the People, gathered by Mass-Observation, "an independent organization engaged in investigating the way ordinary people think and behave" (TIME, April 12). Although the findings are far from encouraging to churchmen, London's Christian News-Letter sent them out because they are "based on fuller data than anything else...

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