churches, the age of the Puritans. In those days membership in the churches did not represent a large percentage of the population, perhaps only 6 or 7 percent of the population as contrasted with 45 or 46 percent now. Yet the churches were tremendously effective. One reason is that today, if a church has a membership of two thousand people, it probably knows where about one thousand of those members are, and about five hundred come to church. But in the days of the Puritans, if a church had five