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$ The Stirring- Story of What House-to-House Yisita- ||
tion Has Lately Done in American Cities ji
By THE RELIGIOUS RAMBLER il
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By The Religious Ramblcr
Since one part of the world does not'
know what another part is doing, the'
simple fact that a house-to-hous«» :
census has been made in the name of,
religion, of more than forty million'
persons in this countrjs will be news!
to most readers.
•More remarkable yet. this work has
been done by highly organized colun
toprs, and with the complete and ac
tive co-operation of Cath
olics and Jews. This is one distinc
tively religions enterprise in which!
th" three leading faiths of America
cordially co-operate; and that, too,
by the direction of their highest offi- \
dais. When the Church census was'
made in Baltimore Cardinal Gibbons'
served as an honorary member of the
committee.
This is pre-eminentlji a city plan,
although it is also worked locally in
many small communities. It is done
in big, commanding fashion, and the
active co-operation of city officials and
chambers of commerce and labor
unions is secured. It is usual for may
ors to issue special proclamations in
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connection with these house-to-house i
; visitations, and in several instances
governors of States also have recog
; nixed the importance of the work by
j otnciai proclamati-ns.
The incidental effects of the work!
iare varied and unexpected. In one
| city, it brought the chamber of com
merce and the central labor union to
gether when they had been encaged in
a serious industrial conflict.
A Two-Hour City Census
The magnitude of the task of tak
ing a complete census of a citv is ;
heightened by the fact that all'the
work is done within two hours on a'
given afternoon. ,
That two-hour period is preceded
by weeks of work, such as is now in
j progress in Oklahoma Citv. by J
Shreve Durham, of. Kentucky, super
intendent of Home Visitation for the
International Sunday School Associa
tion, who has directed these cam
paigns in Chicago, Philadelphia. San S
Francisco, Louisville, Toledo. Balti
more. Montreal. Detroit and many'
other cities. New York Is to be ad-s
ventured in the near future, during
the present year.
The infmense resources of volunteer
labor that are at the command of the
churches in no case are better illus
trated than by these city censuses.
Hundreds and thousand of work-1
ers, Protestant. Catholic and Hebrew
representing all walks of life, enroll I
I as visitors.
! They are carefully organized by dis- j
tricts, as the average, city is too large'
to be handled as a unit. Each district j
lias a local headquarters, which is a
j church, a synagogue; a Knights of.
i 'olumbus Hall, a parish house, a V.'
:M. C. A., or some other appropriate
j meeting place. Thither the visitors
i ot each district repair for instructions,
and to it also they carry their re
ports.
These district chairmen have all
themselves been drilled by the general
j committee, representing all faiths and:
all general civic organizations. Usual
ly, this census is the first occasion in)
a city's life wherein the representa-!
tives of diverse creeds have worked so I
closely together for a common end.
! Even in the actual visiting it is cus- I
tomary for each pair of visitors to j
represent two faiths or two denom
inations. The spectacle of a Catholic
and a Protestant standing side by I
;side on a doorstep, inquiring about the!
home's religious affiliations, and ex
tending a common invitation card, is
wholesome for any community.
Tl»c Facts The Gather
After all preliminary instruction
has been given, and u l necessary lit
erature distributed, the thousands of
visitors assemble at the given hour in
their district headquarters. Each has
a card marking with a red line the
1 block to be covered. Ordinarily, visi-1
tors do rot cross a street, one pair's'
share being a city block or less. Visi- 1
tors always go two-by-two, for mutual
! reassurance and assistance.
Ordinarily, a half holiday is de
clared in the city schols for the visi
tation, and children are told to go
home and help receive the visitors.
This is especially important in for
eign-speaking homes, where the chil-1
| dren commonly act as interpreters,
j .Naturally, the newspapers have kept
I the public' informed of the progress
of the plans for the census.
I The only literature distributed by the
| visitors is an invitation, to the foilow
> ing effect, in three of four languages,
ranging from French and German to
Chinese and Arabic, according to pop
| illation:
j "We come to-day with a cordial
i invitation to you from every church,
synagogue and Sabbath school in this
community. If you attend the ser-
I vices of your choice regularly, all ex
j tend greetings; if you do not, all join
; in a most earnest request that you do
jso. We want to assure you of a hearty
! welcome."
Visitors are instructed not to dis
| tribute tracts or engage in religious
i conversation or engage in prayer; all
of that is left for subsequent church
| work. The oi>e object of the census
i takers, aside from leaving an invita
j tion, is to learn certain definite facts.
! These facts are (1) the name of every
j man, woman and child in the city, (2)
his faith or denomination; (3) the
; local church or synagogue attended or
.preferred; (1) whether a member of
any church in the city: (o) whether
an attendant upon Sunday school; and
(8) the ages of all persons under twen
ty-one years.
Aspects of "City Religion"
Since each pair of visitors has only
from thirty to fifty homes to visit, the 1
1 work is completed within two hours. :
The cards are turned into the district
headquarters. Later, they are fu»*ort- 1 {
ed by denominations" and oJnirches ; {
and synagogues, and distributed to the I
proper authorities.". Alt Catholic,}
names go to the archbishop or bishop. J
all Jewish names to the rabbis, ind J
all Protestant names to the pro-de-! {
nominational representatives.
separate list is printed of all per- j <
sons, together with their addresses. j J
who expressed no church preference.! «
and this is sent to all churches and|J
synagogues alike. Thus far only abodt 1 i
six per cent, of the persons visited t
have failed to express a church pref- J
erence. ! j
An amazing number of lapsed >
church members are always uncov- <
ered. In Chicago alone 42,600 tin- <
placed church letters were recorded j
as a result of the visitation.
All these facts give an alert church ; ?
—and most churches are themselves
aroused by the census—a valuable J
body of actual data on which to work. 5
At the same time, the canvass puts r
the public in a receptive mood by re-! <
minding them that the Church is in-:<
terested in them. Civic leaders say 5
that they have their reward in the 5
new spirit of good will and co-opera- 5
tion which the International Sunday 2
School Association's Home Visitation I 5
brings to their community. v
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