Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-12
THE NON-CHURCH GOERs.

Completion of n Thorough Religious
 Canvass of New Haven-Interesfing
 Features Developed by the Inquiry
 The Committees Report.
 The committee having in charge the relig- ious canvass of New Haven, recently made following report:
 They desire, first of all, to express their thanks to Mir. Mosman for his valuable sug- gestions and aid given in many ways through out the canvass, and would also express their appreciation of the hearty interest manifest ed by the pastors.
 The purpose of the canvass was to sscer- tain the exact need of the city in reference to active and aggressive Christian work.
 The canvass included ten wards, viz: Ward one and those surrounding and adja- cent to it; wards eleven and twelve, between Mill and Quinnipiao rivera; ward fourteen (West Rock, were omitted, as the work ins volved in thorough canvass of the whole city would have been beyond the power of the seminary to accomplish.
 The canvass was begun about the first of November last, forty-fve men volunteering for the work. Its magnitude developed, and before the completion of the actual canvass- ing at the Christmas recess sixty-fve men, or one.half the total number of men in the seminary, had participated. The total num- Oo1 OA Cdl1b LubuO WAS C,0tS, LAC AoISCS1 number made by any one man was 413. The total time spent was 79S hours, ranging, per each man from 1% to 40 hours. The clerical work in duplicating blanks for pastors use and in reckoningand tabulating statistics oc- cupied considerable proportion of the total time.
 A determined effort has been put forth to make the canvas of these ten wards com plete, thorough and accurate, though in view of the fact that so many have participated in it there must be some incompleteness and in accuracy. The statistics give at leasl an ap- proximation of it's truth, serviceable for sll practical purposes.
 As work among Roman Catholics and He- brews is not open to Protestants these class es were omitted in the census, and thus the canvass was brought within the compass of the students' power.
 The total number of persons visited is &C., S23. Comparing this number with the pop ulation of the city, excluding Roman Catho- lies, Hebrews, and the population of wards 11-14, allowing for many families, not at home when called upon, the above figures give an idea of the eomprehensiveness of the work. No summary was made of church members, though it would be interesting to compare this number with that of those who do not attend church at all.
 Families neither members nor attendants, 1,26S; persons neither members nor attend ants, 4,31S; children between the ages of and not in Sunday school 466. This item is the most unsatisfactory. In general it rep resents an admirable condition of Sunday school attendance, but there must be large attendance, which is merely nominal. The statistics in this respect are deficient, as may be seen in the case of ward 5. Close personal work by Sunday schools in making nominal attendance real would seem to be needed. Members of churches outside of New Haven, 622. This represents those persons who have not yet found a church home in this city, or at least those who have not yet placed their letters in New Haven churches. It was hoped that note of this fact would prove of value both to pastors and people.
 The statistics by ward are as follows: