remained common for parents who did not go to church to sendtheir children to Sunday school.
While adults had seen religious participation decline through reduced church attendce, many still sent their children to Sunday Schools - religious teaching was viewed as vital for the young (teach up a child proverb), but not as neccisary for adults who had already learned this teaching.
his was partly because, unlike Protestants, Catholicsbenefited from high levels of immigration. The number of Irish peoplecoming to live in England, which had dwindled between the 1860sand the 1920s, began to mount again in the 1930s and escalatedin the 1950s. There were also immigrants from continental Europe
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By1933 thechurch had nearly eighthundredmembersandtherewasawaitinglistofpeoplewho wantedtorent theirownpews.ThePurley experience wasnotunusual.Betweenthe warsnewchurches werebuilt inmanyexpandingsuburbs. Peoplewholookedback fromthélatetwentieth centurytothechurchlifeof their child-hood regarded the decadesinwhich they grew up notas atimeof
Interesting, shows how not everything was a decline!
However,thelanguageofdeclensionisliabletomisleadifitcreatestheimpressionthatchurcheswereweakorstrugglinginstitutions.Therewasnotasmuchchurchgoingasinthepastbutnumberswerefarfromnegligibleandchurcheswerestillpowerfuland well-supported.
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n 1915 a chaplain recorded a conversation with an adjutant who‘had been an acolyte in a spiky church for six years, and at the time be-lieved everything and found the greatest comfort in the Church. Nowhe finds that he cannot honestly believe anything he was taught.’ Itwas, the chaplain added, ‘such a common story’. Army service consti-tuted a major dislocation in men’s lives and some who had previouslyattended church servicesordevotional meetingsdid not re-establis
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The chaplains’ report, The Army and Religion, produced in 1919,revealed that most of the men who went to the trenches had little timefor institutional religion or formal worship. Others who had been regu-lar churchgoers lost their faith as a result of their wartime experiences.
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As the twentieth century progressed the churches’ communityrole gradually declined. Statutory bodies accepted responsibility for
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Hymns were an integral part of popular culture, andSunday-evening hymn-singing round the piano was not confined tochurchgoing families.
FirstWorld War chaplains who compiled a report on The Army and Religionestimated that four out of every five soldiers had attended Sundayschool. The only books in many working-class homes were a handfulof religious novels awarded as Sunday school prizes. Parents who hadthemselves been to Sunday school taught their children to say theirprayers and to recite grace before meals.
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recent years, however, new insighthas been gained into popular attitudes from interviews with elderlypeople about their childhood memories. This ‘oral history’ revealsthat non-churchgoers often had their own understanding of Christianfaith and observance which differed from that of the clergy. Parentsassumed that the act of presenting their children for baptism showedthat they believed in God and was proof that they were taking their re-ligious responsibilities seriously.
shows how people didn't agree with the church, but did belive in God, so they had their child baptised to show responsibility, but wished to bring up the child in their own faith