...many communities are crying out for relief from the burden that their overchurched condition creates. "There are ten times as many churches for every thousand...the rural districts of the United States as there in New York City. Yet the percentage of attendance for every thousand persons in these rural sections...

...of the cities have so many churches that none of them can succeed. There are, according to Galpin, ten times as many churches for every thousand persons...of the United States as there are in New York City. And yet — and this statement will be hard for some to believe — the percentage of attendance for...