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Show A DOCTOR FO.R SICK CHURCHES t 1 In the January Woman's Homo Com panion appears a portrait and sketch of Dr. Charges Stelcle, a Social Engineer, Engi-neer, who has developed a system for advancing church efficiency In town and country. He is called a doctor for sick churches. Following is An extraot from the article: Why do churches lose ground? What Is to be done when In tho face of con sclentlous effort there Is still a continuous con-tinuous falling off in- attendance, Interest, In-terest, and support? To discover what Is wrong with all'ng churches and to prescribe the different remedies applicable ap-plicable in different cases Is the task to which the Rev. Chas. Stelzlo and hit, associates are scientifically ap-ply'B ap-ply'B themselves as experts In church service. Mr. Stelzlo has long been known as a social engineer with a remark-' able record of success in establishing closer relations between working men nnd the church and better relntlons between employers and employees. Born In the most thickly populated tenement district on tho east side of New York City, a tobacco factory worker nt eight, then n newsboy and frrom his sixteenth to his twenty-fourth twenty-fourth 5'enr an employee in tho largest larg-est machlno shop In tho city, ho has had unusuej opportunities for studying study-ing Industrial and social problems from tho standpoint of thoso most In-tltnntely In-tltnntely concerned. Ho established nnd was for two years superintendent of the unique Lnbor temple, which through social service enlisted the Interest of working peoplo of mnpy rates and creeds In a .section from which many churches had withdrawn defeased by changes to which they could not adapt themselves. In tho last ten years ho has addressed more than half a million working men on tho relation of the church to tho la-bor la-bor movement, and through his writings writ-ings published in three hundred and fllty lnbor papers has reached millions more. As pastor of a groat Institutional Institu-tional church In the middle west, as a leader In tho Men nnd Religion For ward movement and In other official capncltlos ho has gained first hand knowlcdgo of tho problems confronting confront-ing churches of different denominations denomina-tions in many parts of tho country. Mr., Stelzlo says that ho has found earnest church workers too frequently frequent-ly inclined to conflno themselves to rout'no mothods that may havo been highly successful elsewhere, but that are not adapted to their own emergencies. emergen-cies. His methods of promoting church efficiency are based on surveys of Individual In-dividual conditions. i - . |