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CITY SURVEYS 465to do this, would we not have more than 53 Christiansgiving Bible study as the chief influence in their conversion? (2) Note, again, the small number who say that thebiggest influence leading to their conversion was the life orexhortation of friends only 56. One of the finest movements within the Church that I came in contact withduring my recent visit in America were the campaigns ofpersonal evangelism. In these campaigns a church or agroup of churches decide on a period say, of thirty daysduring which the members of the church will makespecial efforts to lead their friends to Christ and into HisChurch. The only public meetings held are for workerswho come together for prayer and conference. The firstpublicmeeting to which outsiders are invited is held at theclose of the campaign when those who have been led toChrist are admitted into the Church. In one city inAmerica last year in which all the churches united in sucha campaign for the forty days before Easter the Methodistchurches alone received more than 1700 new members onEaster morning as a result of the . .campaign. .One of thebest results of the campaign is that a large number ofChristians get during the special campaign the habit ofpersonal work. It shows that 4:56 of our members joined^ ie ChurcliEnterinjMhebefore they were twenty years ofChurch aS e 352 - joined between the ages of twentyand forty, while only 130 joined after theywere foi^ years old. That is to say, 47.6%, nearly onehalf, joined in their childhood and youth, 38.3%, joined inearly manhood and during middle life. Church surveys inAmerica show that this is just as true there as here. Howimportant is work for the young We should ! study ourmethods of reaching the young more carefully and greatlyincrease our efforts on their behalf.Of the 918 Christians 307 are underTra?n?n twenty years of age. Modern psychologyChristians teaches us that during the period of adolesforService cence, from thirteen to twenty years of age,is the period during which our characters areformed. During this period we yield readily to influences,