If anyone missed mass, it meant a good whipping Monday morning. Playing in church also meant a whipping. There was no organ, but the children's mass was sung beautifully as the children practiced in school every week most times in 2 or 3 voices. You might say that forcing children to mass is not democratic or not good. But YOU will also agree, I am sure, that taking them to mass does teach them the need to bring God into their lives and eventually it becomes a pleasant habitual practice.
Children have to be shown the way by parents as well as teachers.