ting its early history.

Recreation is essential to the moral life of any people. It is the
constructive method of making individuals into good citizens. Especially
valuable is it as a means of educating the young people and the working
people of the community. The craving for this social training and
ethical experience drives many out of the country community. Conversely,
training in social morality is to be undertaken especially by the
church, which possesses the conscience of the country community. This
training is expressed in the one phrase; the promotion of recreation.

XIV

COMMON WORSHIP

The worship of God is an expression of the consciousness of kind. "This
consciousness is a social and a socializing force, sometimes exceedingly
delicate and subtle in its action; sometimes turbulent and all-powerful.
Assuming endlessly varied modes of prejudice and of prepossession, of
liking and disliking, it tends always to reconstruct and dominate every
mode of association and every social grouping."[35] This description by
Professor Giddings is so near to a description of worship, that it is
startling.

Of all human acts of the conscientious man worship is the most highly
symbolic. They who worship are alike, and in their likeness are unlike
to others. It is an expression of their awareness of resemblance and of
difference. The definitions of consciousness of kind, as a sociological
process, go a long way to explain without further comment, both the
strength and the weakness of the churches in America.

The churches have to struggle with a narrow and small social horizon.
Few people are so conscious of their kinship with all others in their
community that they desire those others to worship with them. The sense
of unlikeness to others is, unfortunately, as strong in their feelings
as the sense of likeness unto their own. In the American community with
many newcomers, and some foreigners, this sense of unlikeness is
natural. It is not to be wondered that men should think themselves more
like unto their old neighbors than unto the new. It is not surprising
that with new economic processes men should ignore their unity with
those who co-operate with them in getting a living, and should be
conscious of their unity with those whose living comes in the same form.
As a result, we have working men's churches and "rich men's clubs,"
"college churches," "student pastors," churches which minister to old
families, and n