The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-07
1T HE completed census of the church
 D attendance in London, undertaken T hv the Daily News of that town.

by the Daily News of that town' enumerates an attendance of 1,O02,94O at the 253s Christian and sixty-two Jewish places of worship. in the twenty-nine boroughs, containing total population of 4.46S,o49. This gives a ratio of 1 in 445 of the population.
 This total church attendance as given, however, masses together the people counted at both the morning and evening services, and as 1t was found that about 35 per cent of the number had been count ed twice, the actual number of church. goers in London Is reduced to S50.2O5, or in 5.25 of the population. That is' only about 16 per cent of Londoners were found in attendance on places of worship, though there are church accommodations for one-half of, mem. Toward million and a half people, to use the words of the Daily News. ''wilfuliy absented them selves from public worship
 This is not a very encouraging show ing of religious interest in the English capital. It appears. moreover that only about one-quarter of the attendance Is of men. The aggregate at the two services Included only 266.65O men to As,9sS women and 323, ,397 children. The attendance Of men was proportionally less in the Angli- can churches than in the others. Out of total Anglican attendance at the two ser- vices of 43o15S, the number of men was only 9s. 407. In the Noncomformist churches the attendance of men was 120,7S2 out or ne225: in the Roman Catholic 23S5o out of 9s,572
 of the whole attendance. about two- hfths only was Anglican, though in the rich and fashionable districts the Estap- lished Church has almost a monopoly lin Kensington, Hampstead, Padding ton. Westminster and St. Marylebone. Tn the middle class working class and poor districts the Nonconformist churches are strongest It is noteworthy that the Roman Catholic Church has its strongest foothold in certain wealthy boroughs on the one hand. and in certain poor boroughs, on the other.
 The Jewish population of London is small as compared with New York, In London there are only sixty-two syna- gopues. while the number here Is esti- mated at about 300. Christian Science IS much feebler in London than in New York. There the attendance on US churches Is only 553 men. women ana children. The census of church atten- dance taken here last autumn gave IL 17s4. though children were not counted. The two most considerable of the eccen- tric religious bodies in London seem 10 he the spiritualists and the Theosophists. Together their church attendance was four times that of the Christian scien- lists.
 The Nonconformist churches at which | the attendance is the largest are the Bap- fist, 1os,20s. Then comes the Congrega- tionalist with 1o5.535. the Methodist. with
 7s ,ss and the Presbyterian, with 24774 Tn New York the order is numerically, Episcopal Baptist. Methodist, Presbyte- rian. with the congregationalists far be- | hind.
 | It would be interesting to make care full comparison between the church at tendance in London and In New York. but we have not the necessary data. for the | church attendance census here last fal was taken on a very different plan. Nc count was made of the children in ths