factor can operate effectively. Only through the intelligent co-
operation of home and school and church can we hope for success.
The way to make Christian children is to have Christian fathers
and mothers, and the time to begin making them is when they are
children. We must keep this fact constantly in mind as we pass
from this general survey of the religion of the average American
to a more detailed study of particular problems. Though we may
re-define the Church's task, we cannot alter its nature. Now as
in every past age the function of the Christian Church is to win men
and women to allegiance to Jesus Christ and to make His principles
regnant in their lives wherever these lives may be lived.

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