Board finally granted a 10 percent
license for Mr. Eliot's church
which was, of course, entirely in–
sufficient to alleviate the serious
conditions caused by progressive
dry rot.
From the
dry
rot in rafters of
Church buildings the discussion
turned to the question of "dry rot"
in the edifice of the Church as an
institution. Mr. Eliot was pessi–
mistic. War and post-war periods,
he believed, were never particu–
larly conducive to piety and de–
votion. Moreover, the trend to–
wards an increasing "laicization of
religious symbols," the undue em–
phasis on the social and sociologi–
cal importance of Christian prin–
ciples, was still unchecked; and
Mr. Eliot considered this develop-
ment a serious threat to the reli–
gious import of Christianity in the
modem world. He also pleaded for
a revision in the traditional type
of religious education. There had
been an undue emphasis on the
emotional component of Christian–
ity in order
to
reach the minds of
the very young children; as a con–
sequence, not enough attention had
been given to the rational content
of religion in order to make the
subject worthy of interest to the
intellectually most fertile period of
youth betwen fourteen and seven–
teen. In this connection, Mr. Eliot
also commented briefly on Mr. But–
ler's Education Bill. Chur€h circles,
of course, had carefully scrutinized
this document with regard to its
implications as to the place of re-
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