Excerpt from How to Fill the Pews The church should be filled with its own members, and those brought there through the instrumentality Of the members. Such a church is the only really suc cessful church of the living God in the world to-day. Its efforts may be discounted, its methods frowned upon, and its program antagonized by well-meaning but misguided persons, but throughout the years it is the church that does business at the Old stand summer and winter, week in and week out, without undue Show or pomp. It is my purpose in this book to Show how church attendance may be secured, maintained and regulated, intelligently, without spasm. Or splash, by the exertion Of common horse sense and constant energy. This book is not the last word upon the subject of church attendance. It does not claim to be. Even much that is herein contained has been said in a better way, possibly, heretofore. But nobody is injured by being told something that he already knows. The subject is important enough to bear repetition. There are only two kinds of churches, judging by attendance - the empty church and the overflowing church. The former kind is in the majority and therefore entitled to the first consideration of those who are attempting to solve the problem Of church attendance. I have known of a few overflowing churches in my travels, but they are less legion than newspaper reports lead the unsuspecting to believe. It is a fact seldom dwelt upon, that all churches com bined could not furnish the seatings necessary, if a bare majority Of the population Of this country Of ours determined to attend church at one and the same time. It is not expected that so many seatings should be sup plied, and, furthermore, it is not necessary. The prob lem of seating the attendants in an overflowing Church is really as acute as the filling Of the empty pews in a church of the other persuasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.