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Protestant Press Relations in the United States, 1900–1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

John P. Ferré
John P. Ferré
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Mr. Ferré is associate professor of communication in the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
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Extract

Protestant churches in the early twentieth century were vexed by dwindling attendance, a clear sign of their declining social authority. The Reverend William C. Skeath complained about “the masses of the passively religious who have closed their ears to the sermon subject and their doors to pastoral visitation.” Likewise, in How to Fill the Pews, Ernest Eugene Elliott said that because no more than two-fifths of church members went to church on any given Sunday, the church had ceased to be the chief forum in American public life.

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Church History , Volume 62 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 514 - 527
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1993

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The Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture supported this research with a summer stipend (92–0006).

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