Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-21
NEW yoRK's RELIGIONS.

lac religious complexion Of q great
city like New York, presents very in
terestng subject for contemplation.
Rev. Walter Laldlow has studied the
matter and he finds that In all proba
billiy the world has never known the
Ike Of New yorks roster of religions,
A single block he says, has Roman
Catholics. Greek Catholics, ArmenIans,
Jews and ten Protestant communlons,
while Ethical Culturists. Orthodox Rus
SLAMS, splrltuallsts, Christian Scientists
and fourteen other species Of Profess
tants are found on adjacent blocks. II
speaks well for the growth of tolerance,
that all these religious professors can
live together, trapsact business, and
be good neighbors without conflict. In
the Mohammedan world, "Chrls,ians"
sometimes engage In fatal eombats be-
fore the very affairs OF their sanctu-
aries.
An interesting phase of the situation
In New York Is this. that the growth OF
Roman Catholicism and non-"Chris-
tan societies seems to be more
marked than that OF Professionalism.
Throughout Greater New York, II is
said, the Roman church claims 95i ,6O2
persons, while the Protestant commune
cant membership Is 332546 OF the en-
tire population OF New York at the time
of the federal census, viz, 3,i37, 2O2 per-
sons the Federation OF Churches esti-
mates that l2O6,955 were practical or
hereditary Roman Catholics; 5OS,Oie
Hebrews, the balance actual or "po-
tential'' Protestants, making "poten-
tial" Protestant population Of 1,e32, 1886
persons. The actual Protestant com
munlcants Of the city represent about
one million persons.
The Jews are estimated at about &C.,
600. an increase OF about 100 per cent
In ten years. BY continued immigra-
ton and on account OF the high birth
rate among the Hebrew people, II Is
supposed that before long New York
viii have one million of that race with
In its borders. Every immigrant ship
is said TO bring It's contingent; 66,i72
Hebrew jargon-speaking immigrants
landed al Ellis Island between June 80,
1900, and April |, 1902. in addition to
10000 other Jews speaking Polish. slo-
yak. or other dialects.
The growth OF other Christian con-
tlngents is also very rapid. Chinese.
japanese, Hlndus. Turks and miscel-
laneous Asiatcs have Increased. II is
said, 1876 per cent, during the last ten
years, and the growth is not due en-
tirely 20 immigration. Hinduism and
other Asiatic "isms' sometimes obtain
accessions from the ranks OF Chris
tan" worshipers
New York City is in every sense Of
the word cosmopolitan city and the
conditions noted may be regarded as
world conditions. Were the matter ex-
haustively studied. we believe It
would be found true that as a general
rule. Romanism is steadily advancing:
that non-"Chrlstian" systems are
slowly regaining strength, while Pro-
testantism Is making much less progress
than formerly.
In this connection. kind OF procla.
nation issued by Mohammsdan
through Paris newspaper, and quoted
in Public Opinion is not without inter-
est. II says;
For us in the world there are only
believers and unbelieyers: love, charity,
fraternity towards believers, disgust
hatred and war against unbelievers.
Amongst unhelieyers the most hateful
and criminal are those who. while re-
oognlsing God, attribute TO Him earth
ly relationships, give Him son.
mother, Learn then, European observ-
ers, that a Christian Of no matter