The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-21
favorable day. had shown the following

favorable day. had shown the following
results:
mere were in the Methodist Protestant
cnufcn 80 men; First Baptist, 20; First Preshy-
.r.an' 70: II. Marks Episcopalian, 81: First
Methodist, l67; Plymouth, 1851.
ine count at night was handed up to
the pastor by those making the count
Whiie he was in the pulpit. and gave the
following results:
FRS, Methodist Episcopal church, lss; First
Presbyterian, IS: First Baptist, 81: First Meth.
ooist Protestant, So; Plymouth Congregational,
SIS
He added by way of explanation that
the pastor of the First PRESBYTERIAN
church has not arrived. or the reckoning
would be several times as large, since that
church has large, solidified membership
Ior which any pastor might feel thankful.
He continued:
III thus appears that $40 men attended church
IN the line larger central churches this morn
Ing The congregation OF women was estimated
70 De twice as many. It is observed that many
men DO their worship by proxy, but that
method has never found favor as regards drink
ing. IL 10 peculiar fact that any man would
regard getting drunk by proxy as a ridiculous
impossioiiify, and yet you will find great num-
Oefs IN every community who believe that their
salvation of the family
Inc total attendance of FIVE largest saloons
ana theaters was last sunday 1,s9t Comparing
tue morning attendance at five principal
cnufehes' 1t appears that there were about two
thiros as many m the churches. You may say
thas this is bad showing, but it is not SO bad
as many feared
IL Is supposed that the attendance at the re-
naming churches-nfty or thereabout-is much
larger IN proportion TO the attendance at the re-
manning saloons, for the number OF the drinking
PAGES where theatricals are carried on is very
small leking the drinking places alone, the
average number OF customers will fall far be.
low the average attendance at church.
On the other hand, we must take note that
the drinking places are open all the time. The
average number said to enter a certain music
nan ron to in the afternoon is one a min
I'VE. II would appear, therefore, that a great
many thousand persons enter the saloons in the
course OF day. At present statistics are too
meagre TO make even wild estimate.
Ii We say that 10 is the total average all day at
tendance at the churches of both sexes, we have
10000 as the number for the whole city That
Is about one in six Of the population. AS there
are more men than women in the city, and az
the proportion OF women to men in the churches
Is at least two TO one, 1t is likely that about
in ten of the masculine population see the in.
side OF church from week to week. From the
innate.
1t was observed by those who have been so
gooo as TO count for me that nearly ali of the
men at the low theaters were young Not more
than one in ten appeared to be over 3d. But the
proportion OF young men to the whole popula-
ton is much larger here than in an Eastern city
OF Ike size. 1t is the young man who comes
West. 1t is the exception when man of mid
die age Leaves his business connections to begin
anew. Ii Is said that there are 1000 young men
here. think 10000 would be truer estimate
Mr.. Nutting next turned to the discus
sion of how to find n remedy. He did not
believe more churches were needed, for
all the population that can possibly go to
church, if they will, can be contained in
the buildings already erected. He thought
there was need of less discussion of de-
nominational questions, and that if the
churches would forget about some of their
differences nobody would be the worse,
but multitudes would see that attention
was being given to the important things
in life. On this point he said:
We need less churches, rather than more
Two or three little organizations in a suburban
quarter of the city, each an object of home mis-
sionary aid, each containing lonesome COM
pany, incapable singly of doing many things
that one church could do, is a spectacle Of mar
rowness that does little credit to the Christian
ity which has before it the solemn lessons of
nineteen hundred years. There ought TO be a
dividing o: the ground, if denominations are to
continue. so that, If in the coming year it
should seem best to occupy with more churches
such places as the Walla Walla addition and
Queen Anne, there may be not two churches OF
rival denominations started in each place. but
one denomination at the first place, and the
other denomination a. the second place, by an
amicable division. have faith enough in the
Christian principles of the clergymen of this
city TO believe that this is possible; and If IL is
not possible then conversion to right WAYS
should begin at the house of God.