The daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-19??, 1902-10-14
MANY FAMILIES
OUT OF CHURCH,
Statistics Secured For the
Neighborhood Of st.
Andrews.
NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE.
Fourteen Hundred and Forty
five Families Don't Attend
Church. Opportunities
For Religious Work.

| IN bne lnJrOuu ctlon to the yea
book Of ST. Andrews Church is the
| following, taken from paper b,
the rector, the Rev. Hubert W
Wells: Take your stand at the
City Hall, anj. from that point as {
centre, AMI with radius one-half a
mile long, describe 4 circu inference
The circle will be tangent to Twelfth
and Second streets, north and south
and to Church and Madison stree is,
east and west, These streets make
the boundaries OF a district near
whose centre rests Saint Andrews
Church, and the district itself is a
parish not excessively large. To the
West Calvary Church enters the dis
trlct. and to the east Old Swede,',
and these churches share Therefore
In the general responsibility for the
religious condition OF the district.
But the great range of this territory
IS legitimltely the cure of Saint An
drew s. Church. We might we'll call
Il very large part Oft "our neighbor.
hood, y for which we are, in the way
Of religious instruction and interest,
. responsible.
"somc months ago an experienced
and tactful canvasser was set to
work in this district to discover how
many persons there we're without u
definite church home. The work
was thoroughly done and the result
delivered. 1t is founl that within
the district. that Ia to say the ter
ritorial parish Of Saint Andrews
Church, live about fourteen hundred
and forty-live families that do net
habltually at,e,.I church. Three
hundred and fory-eight individuals.
apart from families, do not habitual.
ly attend church. Three hundred
and scvcnty-one families acknowI-
edge no church aI1iiiation. Three
hundred and sixty Two Individuals,
apart from families, acknowledge no
church aIfiliatiOn. OF families that
admit the claims Of the Prot ,stlnJ
Episcopal Church one hundred and
thirty.seven attend no church; and
OF individuals IN like case there
are twenty-five. No information of
the sort desired can be obtained
from twenty.SiX families and from
one hundred and twenty.nine indi.
viduals The canvasser is careful to
say that these figures are approx.
innate.
"Ihese facts are suggestive. They
may be studied with a view to var.
ious results. First OF all, there is
III aterlal enough among the children
Of this district TO form three Sun day
Schools OF The size of the School Of
SAINT Andrews as that School ex-
lists to-day Many OF these children,
We definitely know, are ready to
come 10 Sunday School at the slight
est ursl1g. The practical way to
secure their attendance is, there
[ore,to bring representative of the
Sunday School into contact " ith
them. The present corps OF achers
S occupied with the children alre adv
under Its charge. and we have no
light 10 expect muc OF it in the new
direction. Moreover there are now
more classes than there are teachers
n the Schools. What is required
! men and women who will go into
It, nelghborhooi where abundant
IL material for classes is, and form
he material into classes to be taught
~ the persons forming them.
"particuIar care was taken to dis
over how many children in the
ariSh are without Sunday School
ome. The result is suggestive.
There are tour hundred and seventy.
iyht children under sixteen years
I age and old enough TO attend
unday School, who are not in attend.
nee. We may tabulate the re suits,
$ thus:
"Famlies that do not attend church,
i45; individuals. apartfrom families
lat do not attend church, 34S;
antilles that have no church allilia-
on, 31l; individuals, apart from
lmilies, that have no church affilia-
on, 1852; families, nominally EpIs.
,pal, that do not attend church,
II; individuals, nOminally Episcopal
nd apart from families, that do not
tend church, %; families concern.
g which no information could he
tanned, 26; individuals, apart from
miles, concerning whom no infor-
al ION COllld he obtained 12Q'i ,