Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-20

tor of Allhallows. Lombard street. paid
for delivering sermon every Good
Friday 10 so youngsters of the Blue
Coat school As an inducement for
them to attend they all receive at the
termination of the service new penny
and package of almonds and raisins.
Fifteen churches which would include
those best worth preserving would more
than amply suffice for the religious
NJ eds Of the city If the rest were
sold, the money thus obtained and the
revenues attached TO them would yield,
II has been estimated, an income or
$500. 900 year, with which scores OF
churches might be built and endowed
IN districts where they are needed,
soFTEsT OF SNAPS,
But the efforts made by the bishop OF
London to diminish the number Of these
costly and superiuous city churches
have been repeatedly defeated. Recent
~ he proposed to unite st. Mary the
Virgin, Aldermanbury, with the nearby
church OF St. Lawrence, JeWry Burn
ed down in the great fire Of 1866 and
rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren IL
years later as an antique st. Mary's
is undoubtedly precious. But ms "A
house of worship IL Is a costly and alb
ject failure. Each OF its worshipers
represents an annual expenditure FOR
his spiritual welfare Of 1926. on an
average, there are only IL OF them at
the Sunday morning service and II at
the evening, Yet II maintains a rector,
curatc, choir organist, beade, sexton
and yestry clerk the result being that
out OF its revenue Of $3.50 a year there
tN,g IN
the poor OF the parish. The rector lives
IN Teddington, MiddleseX, remote from
his flock He is an aged man, having
occupied his particularly easy billet for
half a century, hut he displayed sur
rrisIng energy in drumming up votes
enough to defeat the bishops scheme
of union,
ut is extremely doubtful" said Arch
deacon Sinclair to your correspondent,
whether public opinion win permit the
demolition of any more Of these old
churches" A little later, after advert
ing to the inability Of the ecclesiastical
authorities TO provide churches enough
10 satisfy the needs Of LOndon's fast
growing population amounting Ia an
Increase OF some 10000 a year--he adj
ded, with sigh Il regret to say
that the Church Of England is mot
popular
when man of Archdeacon Sinclnir's
character and wide knowledge of AFFAIRS
expresses such an opinion II cannot be
disputed. Unul the Church Of Eng
land purgcs itself of such a scandal as
the city churches present il viii con-
tluue to be unpopular While public
opinion strongly favors the preserVa-
ton of most Of these old churches. IL
would hail with satisfaction any enort
TO rid them Of their enormously over
paid and undcrworked incumbents and
the costly paraphernalia Of Worship
maintained I'm them In striking con-
trnst TO the high standard Of economy
and efficiency that characteri2es the
administration Of the non-conformst
churches,
Another scandal which the Church OF
England win have TO nut a stop 10 be-
fore q becomes popular Is the traffic IN
llvings. In a recent year "A changed
hands for gold, Mr., Hooley, OF COM
pany promoting notorlety purchased
one which he subsequently sold TO the
man who Is now suing him for fraud
and conspiracy. e. Isle SMELL.