Conspicuous by Their Absence

The Watchtower, November 1, 1956

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● When preacher Alan Walker of the Methodist Church in Australia addressed 550 church leaders in Silver Bay, New York, he said that teen-agers were “conspicuous by their absence in American churches.” He suggested that Protestant churches had allowed their Sunday Schools to interfere with teen-agers’ attendance at regular worship services, and that “when they leave the Sunday School they leave the church.”—New York Times, July 16, 1956.

Also in this issue

• A Jesuitical Prayer
• Announcements
• Check Your Memory
• Christian Worship and Preservation of Virtue
• Hebrew Weights and Money
• How True Christians View Politics
• Pursuing My Purpose in Life
• Questions From Readers
• Supporting the Service at Jehovah’s House Fully
• The Need for Solitude
• Turn to the New World Society